Abstract
This English translation of Fr. Sergey Bulgakovs The National Economy and the Religious Personality (1909) makes available the first Orthodox Christian response to Max Webers The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. This piece is of ultimate importance for the contemporary understanding of Orthodox faith, its history at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and the intellectual evolution of Bulgakov himself. The work in this short essay was the authors first step toward becoming arguably the twentieth centurys greatest Orthodox theologian.