Get Your Hands Dirty: Essays on Christian Social Thought (and Action) Daniel Lacalle introduces the contemporary reader to

introduces the contemporary reader to this most humane economist and theorist of the free and virtuous society

and legal foundations of commercial society remain poorly understood

Austin Hill and Scott Rae agree with capitalism's critics that the economy is essentially a moral issue

and Martin Luther King

Get Your Hands Dirty: Essays on Christian Social Thought (and Action) Daniel Lacalle introduces the contemporary reader toThis volume brings together a decade of reflection at the intersection of culture, economics, and theology. Addressing topics ranging from the family to work, politics, and the church, Jordan J. Ballor shows how the Christian faith calls us to get involved deeply and meaningfully in the messiness of the world. Drawing upon theologians and thinkers from across the great scope of the Christian tradition, including Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, Martin