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Gary North (1942) is een economom en publicist die schrijft over onderwerpen als economie, geschiedenis, en Christelijk theologie. Hij is een Libertarian econoom en directeur van het Instituut voor Christian Economics. Gary North was a Governor van de Council for National Policy. 
Tussen 1961 and 1963, kwam North in aanraking met de worken van de Oostenrijkse School van economen met Ludwig von Mises, F.A. Hayek, and Murray Rothbard. Hij behaalde zijn doctoraat aan de Universiteit van Californië, Riverside nav The Concept of Property in Puritan New England, 1630–1720 in 1972 afmaakte. Hetzelfde jaar trouwde hij met Rushdoony's dochter. Gary North was and probably still is a Governor of the Council for National Policy. North was also a senior staff member of the Foundation for Economic Education, which founded the Mont Pelerin Society, and a contributor to FEE’s journal, The Freeman.  Sinds 1974 is hij de editor van de Remnant View, een maandelijks financiële nieuwsbrief. North kreeg in 1976 de smaak van politiek te pakken toen hij als research assistent diende bij de Washington staf van libertarian Republican Congressman Ron Paul uit Texas, die een sterk beperkte overheid voorstond. "After Paul’s defeat, North wrote a testy screed warning Christians that Washington was a cesspool that can’t be changed overnight. He turned his back on national politics and began developing practical tactics for churches to deploy at the grassroots level. Unlike Rushdoony who focused most of his attention on ideas, North explicitly worked to pull together disparate church groups, most notably reaching out to charismatic and Pentecostal congregations in the South in an effort to fuse Reconstructionism’s grassroots activism with committed congregations. When American society collapses under the combined weight of massive foreign debt, military overstretch, and internal decadence, North hopes to have a network of churches ready to step into the breech. In preparation, he has written book after book aimed at educating Christians on how to live debt free, avoid electronic surveillance, and develop the skills necessary for surviving economic collapse. “In short, North’s version of Reconstructionism blazed a path for the militia and Christian survivalist groups of the 1990s to follow.” (“The Libertarian Theocrats”)." 
Veel van North’s artikelen zijn verschenen op LewRockwell.com.

North ontmoette Rushdoony in 1962 en voegde zich bij Chalcedon. Rushdoony en North raakte van elkaar verwijderd in 1981, vermoedelijk na een dispuut over een artikel dat North wenste te publiceren in Rushdoony's Chalcedon Report over het primaat van de kerk boven de familie. Het voornaamste resultaat van hun verwijdering was een toename in Reconstructionistische productie, toen Gary North zijn Instituut voor Christelijke Economie (ICE) naar Tyler, Texas verhuisde, en zijn productiviteit uitbreidde. North is lid van de Presbyterian Church in America.
Hij verbreedde zijn naamsbekendheid in evangelische kringen door een debat met Ron Sider, auteur van het invloedrijke Rijke Christenen in een Tijd van Honger. North kwam tijdens het debat te voorschijn met kopieën van de diatribe tegen Sider, die hij zojuist had gepubliceerd: David Chilton's satirisch getitelde Productive Christians in an Age of Guilt-Manipulators.
Gary North pleit voor de afschaffing van de fractional reserve banksysteem en een terugkeer naar de gouden standaard, Wikipedia
Gary North heeft voorspeld dat Y2K een global catastrofe zou zijn [1] . Hij heeft publiekelijk verontschuldigingen gemaakt voor zijn fouten mbt Y2K in een nieuwsbrief van ICE, Januari 2000
He runs GaryNorth.com

Gary North is de meest radicale van alle Reconstructionist auteurs, een zeer veelzijdige schrijver en levendige promotor van de beweging. Hij is auteur van meer dan drie dozijn boeken over economie, de Bijbel, sociale theorie, educatie en geschiedenis. Evenals de redacteur van de Biblical Blueprint Series (1986-87).

Zijn eerste boek ging over Marx's Religion of Revolution (1968)
Zijn tweede is An Introduction to Christian Economics, Nutley, N. J.: Craig Press, 1973. A collection of essays on economic themes from his perspective. He includes here an essay on inflation in Isaiah 1.
Een ander opvallend boek was Unholy Spirits: Occultism & New Age Humanism (1986)
Een andere mijlpaal is het boek Political Polytheism -The myth of pluralism(1989)
Zijn grootste levenswerk is echter het schrijven van een economisch commentaar op de Thora:

• The Dominion Covenant (1982). Klik hier voor een review
  
• Moses and Pharaoh: Dominion Religion Versus Power Religion. Tyler, Texas: Institute for Christian Economics, 1985. This is his first of 3 volumes of his economic commentary on Exodus. Volume 2 is 'The Sinai Strategy' mentioned beolow.
• The Sinai Strategy: Economics and the Ten Commandments. Tyler, Texas: Institute for Christian Economics, 1986.
• Tools of Dominion: the Case Laws of Exodus (1990)
• Leviticus: Leviticus: an economic commentary (1994)
• Numeri: Santions and Domion (1997)
• Deuteronomy :Inheritance and Dominion (1999)

Honest Money

Using verses from the Old Testament, author Gary North presents chapters on why debasing the currency has led to moral corruption and indecency and is equivalent to having unjust weights; how inflation--"corrupt money"--testifies to the corruption of users of money; how banking works; and the effects of counterfeiting. Interspersing his analysis of the economy with ideas for biblical economic standards, he points the way to a radical economic blueprint. Klik hier voor een review

Unconditional Surrender: God's Program for Victory. Rev. ed. Tyler, Texas: Institute for Christian Economics, 1981, 1987. A popular but systematic treatment of the whole Christian Reconstruction-Dominion Theology approach. North wrote it in a couple of weeks as a simple statement of their movement's views.

Backward Christian Soldiers? An Action Manual for Christian Reconstruction. Tyler, Texas: Institute for Christian Economics, 1984. A collection of essays on proper motives for Christian Reconstruction.

Conspiracy: A Biblical View. Fort Worth: Dominion Press, 1986. He believes in attempts at conspiracy, but since he says God is sovereign, we should get on with his kingdom building without letting the leaders of this world bother us.

Dominion and Common Grace: The Biblical Basis of Progress. Tyler, Texas: Institute for Christian Economics, 1987. An attempt to show that common grace is how God restrains evil, while special grace converts sinners. His proposition is that since (he says) special grace is the conduit of common grace, special grace converts more to Christ, thereby multiplying common grace. Thus, he says, Christianization of the world is possible. A too clever explanation of how things are really getting better even though they are getting worse.

Polical polytheïsm: the myth of plurality, 1989

Klik hier voor een review van Brain M. Schwertley en hier voor die van Louis F DeBoer

At 660 pages long, this is not for those with weak arms, but it provides information about the origins of the American political system that you would not have got in your high school civics class. Everyone who is serious about understanding the American system should read it. Here is the warning at the beginning of the book.

In this excellent book  Gary North examines important issues related to the U.S. Constitution and the supposed "separation of church and state".
He concludes that there is some constitutional support for a separation, but that this comes not from the First Amendment, which is merely a smoke screen for the true source - the provision against a religious test oath for those in the federal government. Many of the states had such oaths, which eventually were done away with.

Voor een lijst van zijn online boeken ga naar de Online Book Page


Biblical Blueprints

This series of books by various authors was published in the years 1986 - 1987. The paperback books are online available at: http://www.entrewave.com/freebooks/sidefrm2.htm

1. Liberating Planet Earth, Gary North’s Intro to Biblical Blueprints
Does the Bible have answers for the complex challenges of Marxism, Communism, Liberation Theology, and New Age Humanism? Yes. Absolutely.
Desperate cries for liberation sound around the globe. Oppression, injustice, and abject need pockmark every continent and every nation. Quite naturally, Marxists, Socialists, and various other Humanists rush in to exploit the discontent with promises of liberty and justice for all.
Sadly, the Church has not responded in kind. Bible teachers and professional theologians have either bought the lies of the Humanists or they have been altogether silent. They simply don't have answers. But the Bible does.
In this volume of the ground breaking Biblical Blueprint Series,
Dr. Gary North outlines specifically what those answers are. He demonstrates that the only true hope for liberating the nations is the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
The Bible tells us what to do, when, where, how, and why. It offers us a "blueprint" for liberation. Liberating Planet Earth lays out that "blueprint" simply, practically, and understandably.
This is North's most evangelistic book. It is a very cogent analysis of baptized socialism as well as a strong defense of the Gospel of Grace. North draws a comparison between orthodox Christianity and Liberation Theology. This is perfect for the skeptical agnostic, the Christian influenced by existentialism, or the new Christian as well.  

2. Ruler of the Nations, Gary DeMar on Government
Does the Bible have answers for the complex problems of modern civil government? Yes. Absolutely.
Scandal ridden and conspiracy laden, our entire government system is in trouble. From the court house to the White House, the government of our land has been crippled with corruption, bureaucratic red tape, and political finagling.
Many constitutional experts fear that if the system does not soon recover it's integrity - and thus the confidence of it's citizenry - it will not survive to the end of this century. But they have little or no idea how to correct that integrity. They don't have the answers. But the Bible does.
In this volume of the ground-breaking Biblical Blueprint Series, Gary DeMar outlines specifically what those answers are. He shows us how we can regain the greatness of the American system.
The Bible tells us what to do, when, where, how, and why. It offers us a "blueprint" for civil stability, Ruler of the Nations, lays out that "blueprint" simply, practically, and understandingly.

Does the Bible have the answers for the complex problems of modern civil government? Yes. Scandal ridden and conspiracy laden, our entire government is in trouble. Many constitutional experts fear that if the system does not soon recover its integrity, it will not survive. But they have little or no idea how to recover that integrity. The Bible has the answers and this book outlines specifically what those answers are. Ruler of Nations by Gary Demar is a shorter form of his 3 Volume "God & Government" series.

3. Who Owns the Family?, Ray Sutton on Family & The State
Does the Bible have answers for the problems facing today's families? Yes. Absolutely.
Our families are in trouble. They are under siege. Divorce is rampant. Parental rights are eroding. Social welfare coercion is on the rise. Governmental intervention has become commonplace. One legislative and judicial booby trap after another has been set, right in our own backyard.
Many social analysts and Christian counselors fear that if basic family structures continue to sustain such destructive attacks, they will not survive, and the very foundations of Western civilization will crumble. Helpless in the face of impending calamity, they do not know what to do - they don't have answers. But the Bible does.
In this volume of the ground breaking Biblical Blueprint Series, Rev. Ray Sutton outlines what those answers are. He shows how the bombs can be defused. He assures us that families can be saved from the ravages of this revolutionary siege if only we would obey Scripture's clear commands.
The Bible tells us what to do, when, where, how, and why. If offers us "blueprints" for victory, Who Owns The Family? lays out that "blueprint" simply, practically, and understandably. It demonstrates that neither the state bureaucrats nor the courts control our families' futures. God does. Booby traps not withstanding.

Our families are in trouble. They are under siege. Many social analysts fear that basic family structures may not survive and the very foundations of Western civilization will crumble. This volume outlines answers to the problem. It assures us that families can be saved if only we obey scripture's clear command.

4. In the Shadow of Plenty, George Grant on Welfare & Poverty
Does the Bible have answers for the tough problems posed by poverty, privation, and welfare? Yes. Absolutely.
The "war on poverty" was supposed to rid of hunger and homelessness, of slums and squalor, of destitution and desperation. But after billions of dollars spent in the effort, there were more poor than ever before. It now appears that the "war on poverty" is over. Unfortunately, poverty has won.
Most social scientists don't know what to do, other than to perhaps call for more of the same old tired policies and programs that lost us the "war" in the first place. They simply don't have the answers. Neither do most Christians. But the Bible does.
In this volume of the ground-breaking Biblical Blueprint Series, George Grant outlines specifically what the answers are. From the Scriptures themselves, he shows how the Church - could and why the Church should - succeed where the government has utterly and dismally failed.
The Bible tells us what to do, when, where, how, and why. It offers us a "blueprint" for victory over poverty. In The Shadow of Plenty lays out that "blueprint" simply, practically, and understandably. It plots our course from trivial and impotent "war games" to strategic and vital "amber waves of grain."
Social scientists don't know what to do about poverty. They don't have the answers. Neither do most Christians. But the Bible does. From the scriptures themselves, George Grant shows how the Church could - and why the Church should - succeed where the government has utterly failed.

5. Honest Money, Gary North on Money & Banking
Does the Bible have answers for the grave economic problems of our day? Yes. Absolutely. We are now facing a monetary crisis of astronomical proportions. Government debt is skyrocketing. Currencies are collapsing. Banks are going broke. Businesses are folding. Families are struggling. We've been stranded, sitting on top of a mountain of IOU's that will never be paid off.
Most professional economists don't know what to do. Neither do most professional theologians. They don't have answers. But the Bible does.
In this volume of the ground-breaking Biblical Blueprints Series, Dr. Gary North outlines specifically what those answers are. He demonstrates beyond any shadow of a doubt that there is hope. If we act quickly, wisely, and Scripturally, we can save our nation-indeed, Western civilization-from the most disastrous economic catastrophe in history.
The Bible tells us what to do, when, where, how, and why. It offers us a "blueprint" for financial victory, Honest Money lays out that "blueprint" simply, practically, and understandably. It shows us how we can "move mountains."
The world is suffering from unstable money. The currencies of the world are controlled by governments and central banks. They have been declining in purchasing power since 1914. This book presents the biblical case for freedom in money. It shows how modern banking is inherently inflationary because it rests on false promises. The answer is economic freedom and law against fraud.

6. The Children Trap, Robert Thoburn on Education
Does the Bible have answers to the tough dilemmas that plague our nation's schools?
The educational crisis in America has become so desperate that most "experts" agree we are "a nation at risk." Academic standards are declining. SAT scores are declining. Teacher competency is declining. In fact, just about everything we do with our schools is declining... except the costs, the crime, the drug abuse and the immorality.
Tragically, most of the experts don't have answers to these dilemmas. But the Bible does.
In this volume of the groundbreaking Biblical Blueprints Series, Robert Thoburn outlines specifically what those answers are. He shows us just exactly what we can do to restore academic and moral excellence in our schools according to Scripture's own plan.
The Bible tells us what to do: when, where, how, and why. It offers us a "blueprint" for educational reform. The Children Trap lays out that blueprint simply, practically, and understandably. It shows us how to reverse the decline and answer the dilemmas.

This volume outlines specifically what we can do to restore academic and moral excellence in education. Likely to be regarded by many as too controversial, this book "lays it on the line" in its evaluation of government, private, church, home, and Christian schools. The influence of this book will help to dramatically change the thinking of believers who sincerely desire to bring their views into closer conformity with the demands of Scripture.

7. Inherit the Earth, Gary North on Economics
Does the Bible have answers for the complex dilemmas of modern economic policy?
Yes. Absolutely. The American economic landscape is littered with the tattered remnant of moral and fiscal irresponsibility: Inflation. Recession. Industrial decline. Bankruptcy. Currency debasement. Default. Exponential taxation. And there seems to be little hope of anything better on the horizon. Most professional economists are at their wit's end. They don't know what to do. They don't have answers. But the Bible does.
In this volume of the ground breaking Biblical Blueprint Series, Dr. Gary North outlines specifically what those answers are. He shows how we can pull our economy out of the current corrupt quagmire of financial ruin-if only we would act decisively and Scripturally.
The Bible tells us what to do when, where, how, and why. It offers us "blueprints" for economic security and stability, Inherit the Earth lays out those "blueprints" simply, practically, and understandably. It demonstrates beyond any shadow of a doubt that there is still hope for our families, our businesses, and our culture.

This book demonstrates that God has established economic principles, and that men gain authority over the economy only by obeying them. Because men have adopted a different set of economic principles, we can expect judgment. We therefore need revival, including the restoration of God's economic principles.

8. The Changing of the Guard, George Grant on Political Action
If this is what it's like to win, how bad must it be when we lose?
Supposedly, the forces of morality have won substantial electoral victories over the last decade. Christians have awakened from a carefully sequestered hibernation and are roaring into the political arena hungry for righteous vindication.
But what have we got to show for it? Abortion is still epidemic. Pornography is still endemic. And corruption is still pandemic. The monolithic humanistic juggernaut seems unaffected and uneffected.
The reason for this perplexing dilemma is actually quite simple: Christians have ignored God's blueprint for political action. As a result, we have merely traded liberal humanists for conservative humanists. We have merely traded decadent yippies for decadent yuppies.
In this volume of the ground-breaking Biblical Blueprint Series, George Grant outlines what the neglected blueprint is.
In addition, The Changing of the Guard plots a course of reconstruction. It outlines a political strategy. It recommends workable agenda. And it delineates Scriptural tactics.
In short, The Changing of the Guard show us how we can really win when we win.

The forces of morality have won substantial electoral victories, and Christians are in the political arena roaring for righteous vindication. However, abortion, pornography, and corruption are still with us. The Changing of the Guard not only pinpoints the problems of the politically naive New Right, it plots a course of reconstruction as well. This gives Christians clear, scriptural direction for gaining influence in the American political system.

9. Healer of the Nations, Gary North on International Relations
Does the Bible have answers for the overwhelming problems of international relations and foreign policy? Yes. Absolutely.
We are in the midst of a massive global crisis of confidence. War and rumors of wars have made detente nigh unto impossible. Enmity and strife pervade every summit. Envy and suspicion cloud every treaty. Avarice and schism threaten every alliance.
Most international theorists and foreign policy analysts can't offer much hope in the way of change. They simply don't have answers. But the Bible does.
In this volume of the ground-breaking Biblical Blueprints Series, Dr. Gary North outlines specifically what those answers are. He shows how the obstacles to justice, peace, and harmony can be overcome - if only we would act decisively and Scripturally.
The Bible tell us what to do, when, where, how, and why. It offers us "blueprints" for global security. Healer of the Nations lays out those "blueprints" simply, practically, and understandably. It demonstrates that despite the pessimism of the experts there is still hope for our world.

North begins with one basic presupposition: that the Bible is always the supreme law of the land, and this God-established fact should be publicly affirmed, nation by nation, in history. Even when it conflicts with the U.S. Constitution, the Bible is always authoritative and preeminent. North goes on to prove that there has been a working alliance - philosophically, politically, historically, culturally-between many Christians and all humanists. This book is a direct challenge to this long term alliance in the field of international relations.

10. Second Chance, Ray Sutton on Divorce & Remarriage
Does the Bible have answers for the heart-wrenching problems of divorce and remarriage?
Yes. Absolutely. One out of every two marriages in the United States now ends in divorce. Almost half of the children born today will be living in a broken home before they reach the age of eighteen. Forty million Americans have been married more than once, and the number keep increasing. This trend has now touched every sector of our society - including the Church.
Most pastors and theologians have been caught off guard. And as a result, they have resorted to extremism - liberal permissiveness on the one hand, austere legalism on the other. They have been unable to genuinely help those caught in the traumas of divorce and remarriage. They don't have answers. But the Bible does.
In this volume of the groundbreaking Biblical Blueprints Series, Rev. Ray Sutton outlines those answers specifically. He avoids the extremes by providing clear, balanced instruction from Scripture.
The Bible tells us what to do - when, where, how, and why. It provides us with a "blueprint" for faithfulness in the midst of divorce and remarriage. Second Chance lays out that "blueprint" simply, practically, an understandably. It offers hope and help for the hurting.

Why another book on divorce? Pastor Ray Sutton contends that most books dealing with divorce and remarriage leave the reader confused because they don't approach the subject of divorce in terms of the covenant. Why is this important? Because marriage is a covenant. Until we apply the principles of the covenant we cannot understand divorce. Sutton skillfully applies the five basic principles of the covenant to divorce and remarriage and develops a practical and hopeful message for the divorced. Does that mean that every divorce and remarriage is permissible? Sutton says no -but every situation is redeemable.