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Title: Economic Religion Versus Christian Values (Critical Essay)
Author : Journal of Markets & Morality
Release Date : January 01, 1998
Genre: Business & Personal Finance,Books,Religion & Spirituality,
Pages : * pages
Size : 260 KB

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Like the group assembled here today, the founding meeting of the American Economic Association (AEA) in 1885 consisted mainly of Christian economists. The organizer of the meeting, Richard Ely, was better known to the American public in the 1880s as a prominent advocate of the Social Gospel movement, rather than as an economist. Of the 50 persons at that first AEA meeting, fully 20 were either current or former church ministers. As Ely and other founders of the AEA conceived their task, they were bringing a new realism and element of expertise to the practice of Christianity. In those days many in the Christian churches had turned their energies to cleaning up the slums, improving the conditions of labor, and other worldly tasks. The church, they believed, had a mission on this earth that was as important as its hopes for the hereafter. Indeed, Ely would declare that it was the true mission of the churches to bring about the kingdom of heaven right here on earth.