Open AccessAdam Smith, Thomas Chalmers and the formation of a moral economy
Author(s) -
Bill Thomas
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
theology in scotland
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1465-2862
DOI - 10.15664/tis.v26i1.1841
Subject(s) - adam smith , sociology , environmental ethics , moral economy , task (project management) , law , philosophy , political science , management , economics , neoclassical economics , politics
This paper argues that the contemporary church needs to re-engage with the task of training individuals (both within the church and without) to become morally responsible members of commercial society. It examines practices of church involvement in the moral training of secular society advocated by Adam Smith and Thomas Chalmers in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Scotland as potential models for this.