D. Stephen Long
D. Stephen Long teaches at Marquette University in Milwaukee. He is author of Speaking of God: Theology, Language, and Truth and Saving Karl Barth: Hans Urs von Balthasar's Preoccupation.
On two occasions I decided to become Catholic. Both times I had to wait because I had been asked to preach or preside as a Methodist.
How should Christians understand—and what should they learn from—the worst economic downturn since the Depression? Does the crisis raise fundamental moral or theological questions about our economic system? Four scholars offer their reflections in this issue of the Century: Dennis P. McCann, Jon P. Gunnemann, Deirdre McCloskey and D. Stephen Long.