Happily, the Freeman Classics series brilliantly meets that need. To date, the series contains sixteen volumes, composed of essays and articles from The Freeman, the monthly journal of the Foundation for Economic Education. Space precluding examination of the whole series, we confine ourselves to five volumes that address topics most likely to interest clergy and seminarians. Faith of Our Fathers abundantly supports the latter view. Not only did desire for religious freedom motivate many colonists, but clergymen such as John Witherspoon were active in achieving American independence, and the Founding Fathers saw religion as a vital underpinning of morality and order.
Several authors maintain that morality depends on freedom, including economic freedom.
Since choices have no moral significance unless freely made, without free institutions, morality is impossible. A very wide-ranging and searching volume, Faith of Our Fathers also ably criticizes the modern intellectual climate of materialism, positivism, and egalitarianism as inimical to freedom. Frequently made moral criticisms of the free market as selfish, materialistic, impersonal, etc., don't hold up in light of common sense and the biblical teaching of personal responsibility. Many clergy are either hostile to free enterprise on moral grounds, or unaware of its moral merit. The Morality of Capitalism goes far to rectify that.