Healer of the Nations: Biblical Principles for International Relations pdf

Gary Kilgore North  was an American writer, Austrian School economic historian, and leading figure in the Christian reconstructionist movement. North authored or coauthored over fifty books on topics including Reformed Protestant theology, economics, and history. He was an Associated Scholar of the Mises Institute.
He is known for his advocacy of biblical or "radically libertarian" economics and also as a theorist of dominionism and theonomy. He supported the establishment and enforcement of Bible-based religious law, a view which put him in conflict with other libertarians.He believed that capital punishment is appropriate punishment for male homosexuality, adultery, blasphemy, abortion, and witchcraft. North was born in San Pedro, California, on February 11, 1942, and 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 book-stores in the Los Angeles area during his college years.Between 1961 and 1963, while an undergraduate student at University of California, Riverside, North became acquainted with the works of Wilhelm Röpke, Rose Wilder Lane, Cornelius Van Til, Austrian School economists Eugen Böhm von Bawerk, 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. 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 PhD 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 was 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 published a blog called Deliverance from Debt which provided 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.

Healer of the Nations: Biblical Principles for International Relations pdf by Gary North

Yes, I know. This book is too long. It sticks out like a fat, sore thumb on the shelf of Biblical Blueprints books. When I first decided to include a book on international rela-tions in the Biblical Blueprints Series, I knew that it would be the most difficult book to write in the series. There is virtually no body of material on Christian international relations and foreign policy, and what little that does parade as Christian is simply warmed-over humanism, and intellectually lightweight human- ism at that. (Herbert Butterfield’s undated and deservedly forgot- ten book of the early 1950’s, Christianity, Diplonzay and War, is an example of such non-Christian “Christian” contributions.) Fur- thermore, there is no agreed-upon humanist conservative view of what foreign policy is expected to achieve, and just how national foreign policy is supposed to fit into the world of international re-lations. A few still favor the late Senator Robert Taft’s isolationist foreign policy; others favor active anti-Communism and military intervention abroad. Most conservatives call for the abolition of U.S. government non-military foreign aid (except possibly to Israel), but what about military aid? No agreement. Some believe that Franklin Roosevelt needlessly lured this nation into war, and did so unconstitutionally against the wishes of Congress and the voters; others (perhaps even the same people) believe that Lt. Col. Oliver North’s efforts to thwart Congress and take a stand against international Communism were right on target.