A Theology of Labor

Posted by: Good Samaritan
on April 13, 2005 @ 09:25 AM EST

John Paul II had many virtues, and by preaching the splendor veritatis in the face of a Communist regime built on lies, he did much to advance the liberal cause (in the classical sense). Nonetheless, his own politics was largely pacifist and arguably socialist. (The author of the second link thinks the next pope should read Adam Smith.)

Last year I wrote a "theology of labor," an effort to reconcile economics and Christianity, to explain why laissez-faire capitalism is rooted (morally) in the truth that man's need to serve his fellow men is more fundamental than his need for economic subsistence; and that God made us dependent on one another for survival in order to protect us from the utter alienation to which the Fall would otherwise have condemned us. I hope ideas like these will penetrate the Catholic Church and dispel its occasional socialistic errors. I am convinced that liberalism is by far the best political paradigm for Christians to embrace in the sphere of political economy.

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