Gary North (Christian Reconstructionist)
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Gary North is one of the major writers and publishers of the Christian Reconstructionism movement. (He is the son-in-law of R.J. Rushdoony, one of the movement's founders.)
Christian Reconstructionists are postmillennialists, meaning they believe that Jesus will return to earth only after conservative Christianity has become the religion of the majority of the planet with God's moral law as the civil standard for society. They believe that Old Testament moral and civil laws, such as those against adultery and sodomy and murder, should be presumed binding unless the New Testament says otherwise; this belief they call theonomy. Theologically, Gary North is a Calvinist. He is President of the Institute for Christian Economics (http://www.reformed-theology.org/ice/), which now publishes Christian Reconstructionist books online. Christian Reconstructionists are also presuppositionalists in their approach to Christian apologetics as taught by the Calvinist philosopher, Cornelius Van Til and oppose any natural law theory as a basis for civil law order.
Gary North argues for the abolition of the fractional reserve banking system, and a return to the gold standard.
Gary North had predicted that Y2K would be a global catastrophe [1] (http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,33445,00.html). He had publicly apologised for his mistaken view of Y2K in a January 2000 ICE newsletter.
North has attracted much criticism for his beliefs, not least from Dispensationalists who obviously dispute his Millennial eschatology. Many Calvinists, especially those who hold to an Amillennial eschatology (which is most of them), also dispute North's position.
He runs GaryNorth.com (http://www.garynorth.com).
Gary North should not be confused with Gary B. North, also a writer.
External links
- http://www.lewrockwell.com/north/north-arch.html
- http://www.garynorth.com/
- http://www.freebooks.com/
- Profile (http://www.nndb.com/people/892/000058718/)