The Clemens Chair in Economics and the Liberal Arts

Daniel Finn

College of Saint Benedict
339 Main
37 South College Avenue
Saint Joseph, MN 56374

Cell: 320-248-3402
Office: 320-363-5215
Email: [email protected]

932 Cypress Road, Apt# 226
St. Cloud, MN 56303

Current Position

The William E. & Virginia Clemens Professor of Economics & the Liberal Arts,
Department of Economics and 
Professor of Theology, The School of Theology
Saint John’s University/College of Saint Benedict

Academic Degrees:

• Ph.D., 1977, University of Chicago
• M.A., 1975, University of Chicago
• B.S., 1968, St. John Fisher College

Positions Held:

• 2009, President of the Society of Christian Ethics
• 2006-07, President of Catholic Theological Society of America
• 1986, President, Association for Social Economics
• 1985-87, President, Midwest Association of Theological Schools

Books

2021    Faithful Economics in 25 Short Lessons, Fortress Press.

2021    Business Ethics in Catholic Social Thought, Editor, Georgetown University Press.

2020    Moral Agency within Structures and Culture: A Primer on Critical Realism for Christian Ethics, Editor, Georgetown University Press.

2019   Consumer Ethics in a Global Economy: How Buying Here Causes Injustice There, Georgetown University Press.

Articles/Chapters

2023    “Sin and the Social World.” Modern Theology, vol. 39, no.1, January.

2020    “Exercising Power in Social Structures: Learning from The Daily Experience of the Laity,” in Donna L. Orsuto and Robert S. White, eds., Full, Conscious, and Active: Lay Participation in the Church’s Dialogue with the World, Libreria Editrice Vaticana. 

2020    “What is Critical Realism” and “Social Structures,” in Finn, ed., Moral Agency within Structures and Culture: A Primer on Critical Realism for Christian Ethics, Georgetown University Press.

2018    “What Can You Do? Understanding Sinful Social Structures,” Commonweal, vol. 145, no. 16, October.

Full List of Publications and CV

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