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Gary Kilgore North
Gary NorthGary North speaking at the Mises Institute in 2004 after receiving the Rothbard Medal.
Born(1942-02-00)February , 1942
EducationPh.D. in History, University of California, Riverside
Occupation(s)Christian Social Theorist, Blogger, Author
Known forCo-Founder of Christian Reconstructionism
SpouseSharon Rushdoony
Websitewww.garynorth.com

Gary Kilgore North (born February 1942) is an American economic historian and publisher who writes on topics including Christian theology, economics, and history. He is an Associated Scholar of the Ludwig von Mises Institute.

Education and background

North grew up in southern California, the son of FBI special agent Samuel W. North, Jr., and his wife, Peggy. North converted to Christianity in high school and began frequenting conservative bookstores in the Los Angeles area during his college years. Between 1961 and 1963, while an undergraduate student, North became acquainted with the works of Austrian School economists Ludwig von Mises, F.A. Hayek, and Murray Rothbard and also read the works of Calvinist philosopher Rousas John Rushdoony. Later he married Rushdoony's daughter, collaborated with him and eulogized Rushdoony in a blog post on LewRockwell.com.

Career

Starting in 1967, North became a contributor to the libertarian journal The Freeman where he had first read the work of Ludwig Von Mises and Friedrich Hayek. In the 1970s, he was the director of seminars for the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE). North received a Ph.D. in history from the University of California, Riverside in 1972. His dissertation was The Concept of Property in Puritan New England, 1630–1720.

He served as research assistant for libertarian Republican Congressman Ron Paul in Paul's first term (1976). North is a regular contributor to the LewRockwell.com website, which lists an extensive archive of his articles there. North's own website, Garynorth.com, posts commentary on religious, social, and political issues and offers paid access to investment advice and other premium content. North also publishes a blog called Deliverance from Debt which provides advice about relief from debt. Another North website, "Free Christian Curriculum", seeks to provide a free Christian homeschooling curriculum for children from age 3 through grade 12.

Ron Paul curriculum

In addition, North offers the Ron Paul Curriculum, a home school online curriculum associated with former U.S. Congressman Ron Paul, which is free for grades K-5 and available to paid members from grades 6-12. As Director of Curriculum Development, North has outlined four goals of the educational project: providing a "detailed study" of the "history of liberty"; teaching a "thorough understanding of Austrian economics"; serving as a "an academically rigorous curriculum that is tied to primary source" material rather than textbooks; and teaching "the Biblical principle of self-government and personal responsibility", which North calls "the foundation of the market economy".

Political, economic, and religious beliefs

In 2011, a New York Times article identified North as a central figure in Christian Reconstructionism, the philosophy which advocates the institution of "a Christian theocracy under Old Testament law the best form of government, and a radically libertarian one." The article also described North as "the leading proponent of 'Christian economics,' which applies biblical principles to economic issues and the free market." North supports the abolition of the fractional-reserve banking system and a return to the gold standard. According to the Times, North believes that the Bible forbids inflation, welfare programs, and also writes that "God would prefer gold money to paper".

Christian, Bible-based economic methodology

In his 1982 Dominion Covenant: Genesis, North wrote that mainstream modern economics, whether libertarian, conservative or liberal, is "in disintegration" because it is "humanist" in its approach and consequently rejects the notion that "biblical revelation" is necessary for sound economic theory. He also wrote that economics "must begin with the story of creation" if it is not to collapse into "total chaos". He has written that the "starting point for all economic analysis" lies in the fact that "God cursed the earth" in Genesis 3:17-19; this "made scarcity an inescapable fact of man's existence".

Support for executing homosexuals and other sinners

North favors capital punishment for a range of offenses; these include women who lie about their virginity, blasphemers, nonbelievers, children who curse their parents, male homosexuals, and other people who commit acts deemed capital offenses in the Old Testament. North also favors capital punishment for women who have abortions. On the subject of executing children, North has written that " son or daughter is under the jurisdiction of the family," which "must be maintained by the threat of death".

In his Boundaries and Dominion: An Economic Commentary on Leviticus, Volume 1, North argued that the biblical admonition to kill homosexuals in Leviticus is God's "law and its morally appropriate sanction". He also wrote "God is indeed a homophobe" who "hates and those who practice it" and "hates the sin and hates the sinner." In the same volume, North wrote: "Homosexuals do not reproduce. They recruit. There is an inescapable competition for bodies and souls: homosexuals vs. heterosexuals. If the homosexuals should win this competition, the human race will end unless test-tube babies should become a cost-effective reality. This is not just a war over civilization; it is a war over the survival of the human race".

North has said that capital punishment should should be carried out by stoning, because it is a bibilcally-approved method of execution and it is cheap due to the plentiful and convenient supply of stones.

Religious liberty

Walter Olson from Reason quotes North as saying: "e must use the doctrine of religious liberty to gain independence for Christian schools until we train up a generation of people who know that there is no religious neutrality, no neutral law, no neutral education, and no neutral civil government. Then they will get busy in constructing a Bible-based social, political and religious order which finally denies the religious liberty of the enemies of God."

Adam C. English suggests that this quote implies that "religious liberty is a useful tool to Christians in the present, yet is ultimately to be denied to to anyone who is not Christian once the Christians are in power". English argues that although this may seem inconsistent (advocating religious liberty but denying the reality of the notion), North and his fellow Reconstructionists understand "liberty" in a theological sense. According to the Reconstructionists, "anyone outside of the Christian faith is in bondage," and so "government by rigorous theonomy is not oppressive but liberating".

Y2K catastrophe prediction

North predicted a Y2K catastrophe in print and online, and suggested that a Y2K date-rollover failure of the global Information Technology (IT) infrastructure would precipitate severe disruption and perhaps even an economic collapse. North urged his readers to take various survivalist preparedness measures. After no significant problems took place, North later described Y2K as "a close call",

Publications

Institute for Christian Economics

North is the founder of the Institute for Christian Economics (ICE), which publishes online books and magazines focusing on Christian ethics. ICE, along with Dominion Press in Tyler, Texas, are important sources for Reconstructionalist publications.

Books and newsletters

North has authored or co-authored more than fifty books, many of which are available for free download. For many years, North has been the author/editor of the newsletter The Remnant Review. He also provides Gary North's Reality Check, a free e-newsletter.

  • 75 Bible questions your instructors pray you won't ask, 1986 ISBN 0-930462-03-3 OCLC 18651534
  • A Study Guide To Gary North's Liberating Planet Earth, (Co-authored by Geoffrey W. Donnan, Jr. Charles W. Armstrong) 1991 ISBN 0-930464-42-7
  • An Introduction To Christian Economics, 1973 OCLC 834889
  • Backward Christian Soldiers, 1984 ISBN 0-930464-01-X
  • Baptized Patriarchalism: The Cult of the Family, 1995 ISBN 0-930464-71-0
  • Boundaries and Dominion: An Economic Commentary of Leviticus, 1994 ISBN 0-930464-72-9
  • Christian Reconstruction (Co-authored by Gary DeMar), 1991 ISBN 978-0-930464-52-3
  • Coase Theorem: A Study In Economic Epistemology, 1992 ISBN 0-930464-61-3
  • Conspiracy: A Biblical View, 1996 ISBN 0-930462-11-4
  • Crossed Fingers: How the Liberals Captured the Presbyterian Church, 1996 ISBN 0-930464-74-5
  • The Dominion Covenant: Genesis, 1987 ISBN 0-930464-03-6
  • Dominion & Common Grace: The Biblical Basis of Progress, 1987 ISBN 0-930464-09-5
  • Fighting Chance: Ten Feet to Survival (co-authored by Dr. Arthur B. Robinson), 1986 ISBN 0-930462-10-6
  • Government By Emergency, 1986 (revised in 1992) ISBN 0-930462-05-X
  • Healer Of The Nations: Biblical Principles for International Relations, 1987 ISBN 0-930462-21-1
  • The Hoax of Higher Criticism, 1989 ISBN 0-930464-30-3
  • Honest Money: Biblical Principles of Money and Banking, 1986 ISBN 0-930462-15-7
  • The Implosion Strategy: How to stay out of the black hole during the next recession and its aftermath, 1990 ISBN 1-55926-130-7
  • Inherit The Earth: Biblical Principles for Economics, 1987 ISBN 0-930462-56-4
  • Inheritance and Dominion: An Economic Commentary on Deuteronomy, 1999 ISBN 0-930464-78-8
  • Is The World Running Down?: Crisis in the Christian Worldview, 1988 ISBN 0-930464-13-3
  • Judeo Christian Tradition: A Guide for the Perplexed, 1990 ISBN 0-930464-28-1
  • Leviticus: An Economic Commentary, 1994 ISBN 0-930464-72-9
  • Liberating Planet Earth: An Introduction to Biblical Blueprints, 1987, revised in 1991 ISBN 0-930462-51-3
  • Lone Gunners for Jesus: Letters to Paul J. Hill, 1994 ISBN 0-930464-73-7
  • Marx's Religion of Revolution: Regeneration Through Chaos, 1989 ISBN 0-930464-15-X
  • Millennialism And Social Theory, 1990 ISBN 0-930464-49-4
  • Moses and Pharaoh: Dominion Religion vs. Power Religion, 1985 ISBN 0-930464-05-2
  • Political Polytheism: The Myth of Pluralism, 1989 ISBN 0-930464-32-X
  • Puritan Economic Experiments: Puritans and Government Controls, 1988 ISBN 0-930464-14-1
  • Rapture Fever: Why Dispensationalism is Paralyzed Dispensationalism, 1993 ISBN 0-930464-67-2
  • Salvation Through Inflation: The Economics of Social Credit, 1993 ISBN 0-930464-66-4
  • Sanctions and Dominion: An Economic Commentary on Numbers, 2000 ISBN 0-930464-76-1
  • Sinai Strategy: Economics And The Ten Commandments (Part Two of North's commentary on Exodus), 1986 ISBN 978-0930464073
  • Tactics of Christian Resistance, 1983 ISBN 0-939404-07-9
  • Theology of Christian Resistance: A Symposium, 1983 ISBN 0-939404-05-2
  • Theonomy: An Informed Response, 1991 ISBN 0-930464-59-1
  • Tithing and the Church, 1994 ISBN 0-930464-69-9
  • Tools of Dominion: The Case Laws of Exodus, 1990 ISBN 0-930464-10-9
  • Trespassing For Dear Life: What About Operation Rescue?, 1989 ISBN 1-559261-25-0 OCLC 25662723
  • Unconditional Surrender: God's Program for Victory, 1994 ISBN 0-930464-12-5
  • Unholy Spirits: Occultism and New Age Humanism, 1994 ISBN 0-930462-53-X
  • Victim's Rights: The Biblical View of Civil Justice, 1990 ISBN 0-930464-17-6
  • Was Calvin a Theonomist?, 1990 ISBN 0-930464-36-2
  • Westminster's Confession: The Abandonment of Van Til's Legacy, 1991 ISBN 0-930464-54-0
  • When Justice Is Aborted: Biblical Standards For Non-Violent Resistance, 1989 ISBN 1-55926-124-2

Documentary and educational film

See also

References

  1. "Mises Institute Faculty Listing". Retrieved 14 July 2013.
  2. Society of Former Special Agents of the FBI (1996). Society of Former Special Agents of the FBI. Turner Publishing. p. 185. ISBN 1563112051. OCLC 37922781.
  3. North, Gary. "It All Began With Fred Schwarz". LewRockwell.com. Retrieved 3 May 2011.
  4. Stammer, Larry (3 March 2001). "The Rev. Rousas John Rushdoony; Advocated Rule by Biblical Law". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 6 April 2013.
  5. Rushdoony, Rousas John (1978). The Institutes of Biblical Law: a Chalcedon Study. Presbyterian and Reformed Publishing Company. p. 890. ISBN 9780875524108. OCLC 768429065. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
  6. North, Gary. "R. J. Rushdoony, R.I.P". LewRockwell.com. Retrieved 3 May 2011.
  7. Gary North, "What Made Rothbard Great", Ludwig von Mises Institute. Mises.org. 28 July 2004.
  8. North, Gary (May 1, 1996). "The Moral Dimension of FEE". The Freeman.
  9. Gary North, The Concept of Property in Puritan New England, 1630–1720, Ph.D. dissertation, 1972.OCLC 1902749
  10. LewRockwell.com Articles by North
  11. Why You Should Join This Members-Only Community Forum, Garynorth.com, accessed July 27, 2014.
  12. Gary North, Deliverance from Debt blog, accessed July 27, 2013.
  13. Free Christian Curriculum website, accessed July 27, 2013.
  14. Announcing: The Ron Paul Curriculum Is Open for Business, Gary North website, April 06, 2013
  15. Gary North, A Q&A Dialogue for Newcomers, RonPaulCurriculum.com.
  16. Bump, Philip (April 9, 2013). "Ron Paul's Home Schooling Curriculum Will Turn Your Kid into a Little Ron Paul." The Atlantic Wire
  17. ^ Oppenheimer, Mark. "'Christian Economics' Meets the Antiunion Movement". New York Times. Retrieved 30 April 2011.
  18. Dominion Covenant: Genesis, Institute for Christian Economics, June 1982.
  19. See:
  20. Wilson, Bruce (May 28, 2010). "Gary North Is Still Surprising Obscure". Talk To Action: Reclaiming Citizenship History and Faith.
  21. ^ "Invitation to a Stoning: Getting cozy with theocrats" by Walter Olson, Reason, November 1998, page 2 of 2
  22. North, Gary. "Letter to Paul Hill". Retrieved 28 July 2013.
  23. ^ Clarkson, Frederick (1995). "Christian Reconstruction: Theocratic Dominionism Gains Influence". Eyes Right!: Challenging the Right Wing Backlash. South End Press. p. 62. ISBN 9780896085237.
  24. Gary North, The Sinai Strategy: Economics and the Ten Commandments (Tyler, TX: Institute for Christian Economics, 1986), pp. 59-60
  25. Gary North, Boundaries and Dominion: An Economic Commentary on Leviticus, (2nd ed., Vol. 1, p. xxvi; 221), 1999.
  26. Vile, John R. (2003). "Christian Reconstruction". Encyclopedia of Constitutional Amendments, Proposed Amendments, and Amending Issues, 1789–2002 (2nd ed.). Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO. p. 67. ISBN 1-85109-428-8. OCLC 51553072. ...North favors stoning,...because of the widespread availability of rocks....
  27. English, Adam C. (2003). "Christian Reconstruction after Y2K: Gary North, the New Millennium, and Religious Freedom". New Religious Movements and Religious Liberty in America. Baylor University Press. p. 116. ISBN 9780918954923.
  28. English, "Christian Reconstruction after Y2K," p. 117.
  29. "There's Something About Gary". Wired Magazine. January 1999.
  30. Gary North's Y2K Links and Forums, mirror archive of removed page, accessed July 27, 2013.
  31. "What Is The ICE?". Retrieved July 25, 2013. The Institute for Christian Economics is a non-profit, tax-exempt educational organization which is devoted to research and publishing in the field of Christian ethics.
  32. Journals from ICE include:
  33. Ingersoll, Julie J. (January 1, 1999). "Reconstructionist Christianity". Contemporary American Religion. Retrieved July 26, 2013, from HighBeam Research. {{cite journal}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
  34. "FreeBooks from the Institute for Christian Economics". entrewave.com. Retrieved 2012-03-11.
  35. Back Issues of Gary North's Reality Check, accessed July 27, 2013.

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