Markets, Morality & the Medieval Christian Mind

Mary Hirschfeld, professor of economics and theology at Villanova University, became an accomplished professor in a tenured post at Occidental College. As a faculty member there, she had an adult conversion to the Christian faith, which then prompted her to reflect on the foundations of the modern economic discipline as a moral enterprise.

Hirschfeld’s questions on how to approach economics from a Christian perspective led her to leave a prized tenured post and begin a second doctorate in theology from Notre Dame. Now a professor of theology at Villanova, she is one of the few very few scholars in the world who have a bi-cultural literacy through two very different lenses on the world. Join Chesterton house to gain perspective and insight on navigating what it means to live a virtuously economic life.