Edmund A. Opitz

God has laid down rules for us in every walk of life, including the proper organization of our economic affairs. The free economy is a system of voluntary arrangements that brings together people who have work skills, who use tools and machinery to increase their output, thus producing the incredible abundance of goods and services we enjoy as consumers.

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Anders Chydenius

Known as the Adam Smith of the North, Anders Chydenius laid out his economic prescription for mercantilist [Sweden-Finland] in The National Gain in 1765, suggesting a concept of spontaneous order eleven years before Adam Smith in The Wealth of Nations: “Every individual spontaneously tries to find the place and the trade in which he can best increase Nationa

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Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Born on February 4, 1906, in Breslau, then part of Imperial Germany, Dietrich Bonhoeffer began his theological education in 1923 at the University of Tübingen. He later trained under liberal theologians Adolf von Harnack and Reinhold Seeburg.

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Lord Ralph Harris of Highcross

Born in Tottenham in 1924, Lord Ralph Harris was a foremost champion for free markets in twentieth century Great Britain. After a first in Economics at Cambridge and a subsequent teaching stint at St. Andrew's University, Lord Harris became general director of the Institute for Economic Affairs in 1957 (Lord Harris would hold the post of founding director until 1987).

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Ugo di San Vittore

Così scrisse Ugo di San Vittore. Ugo (1096-1141) fu un canonico dell’Abbazia di San Vittore a Parigi. La sua scelta vocazionale è significativa, in quanto i canonici facevano parte di un movimento che intendeva recuperare l’ascetismo della Chiesa dei primi tempi, combinandolo con il servizio al prossimo.

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San Bernardino da Siena

San Bernardino da Siena, l' Apostolo d’ Italia, è stato un missionario riformatore e un economista d’orientamento scolastico. Nacque nella cittadina di Massa Marittima in Toscana, da la famiglia nobile Albizzeschi.

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San Tommaso d'Aquino

Tommaso d’Aquino manifestò un particolare acume sin dalla prima formazione e, nello sgomento dei suoi genitori, decise di abbracciare la vita religiosa.

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Santo Tomás de Aquino

Tomás de Aquino exhibió ya desde su educación primaria una destacada inteligencia. Para consternación de sus padres, decidió dedicarse a la vida religiosa, ingresando en la Orden de Santo Domingo en algún momento entre el año 1240 y 1243.

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"The Culture of Charity"

What motivated you to write this book? What questions were you hoping to answer?

by Arthur C. Brooks

Editor's note

In this issue of Religion & Liberty we meet a giant of the Twentieth century: Alexander Solzhenitsyn of Russia. He has been both widely celebrated and widely reviled. His courage is admirable-—risking his life and suffering the torment of the Soviet gulag. Now in his old age, his place is secure as a hero in the history of liberty.

by Raymond J. de Souza

Ideology vs. reality

© Free Software Foundation, Inc. If one becomes aware that the original moral argument for socialism is wrong—that capitalism is actually benefiting people and serving the common good—why would one hold on to the ideology rather than abandon it? Clearly, it is difficult to abandon a lifelong ideology, especially if one considers the only available alternative to be tainted with evil.

by Rev. Robert A. Sirico

Double-edged sword: The power of the Word - Matthew 6:1–4

Matthew 6:1–4 “Take care not to perform righteous deeds in order that people may see them otherwise, you will have no recompense from your heavenly Father. When you give alms, do not blow a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets to win the praise of others. Amen, I say to you, they have received their reward. But when you give alms, do not let you left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your almsgiving may be in secret. And you Father who sees in secret will repay you.”

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