Markets and Other Social Structures: Analyzing Moral Ecologies in Christian Ethics

This volume honors and examines Daniel Finn's transformative contributions to the field of Christian ethics. In a career spanning nearly fifty years, Finn became a preeminent thinker on Christian economic ethics and pioneered pathways of interdisciplinary engagement between theological ethics and the social sciences. In this collection, a wide range of scholars from several disciplines take up key themes from Finn's scholarship--including the terms of the dialogue between economics and theology, the importance of attending to a market's "moral ecology" when evaluating economic activity, and the use of critical realism for theological reflections on structural sin and moral agency--critically exploring and developing the relevance of these for social ethics and extending them to address new problems.

David Cloutier is Associate Professor of Theology at Mount St. Mary's University in Emmitsburg, MD. He is the author of Love, Reason, and God's Story: An Introduction to Catholic Sexual Ethics (2008), as well as a number of articles and book chapters on sexual ethics and moral theology.

Christina McRorie is Associate Professor of Moral Theology at the Clough School of Theology and Ministry at Boston College and the author of The World of Markets.