Rapture Fever

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Gary North received his Ph.D. in history from the University
of California, Riverside, in 1972. He specialized in colonial U.S.
history. He wrote his doctoral dissertation on Puritan New
England’s economic history and the history of economic
thought. A simplified version of this dissertation has been published
as Puritan Economic Experiments (Institute for Christian
Economics, 1988).
In the late 1960’s, he and R. J. Rushdoony founded what
has become known as the Christian Reconstruction movement,
also known as theonomy.
He is the author of approximately 35 books in the fields of
economics, history, and theology. His first book, Marx’s Religion
of Revolution, appeared in 1968. His Introduction to Christian Economics
appeared in 1973, the year he began writing a muhivolume
economic commentary on the Bible, which now covers
Genesis, Exodus (three volumes), and Leviticus. He was the
general editor of the Biblical Blueprints Series (1986-87), a 10volume
set.
Beginning in 1965, his articles and reviews have appeared in
over three dozen newspapers and periodicals, including the
Wall Street Journal, Modern Age, Journal of Political Economy,
National Review, and The Freeman.
He edited the first fifteen issues of The Journal of Christian
Reconstruction, 1974-81. He edited a festschrzft for Cornelius Van
Til, Foundations of Christian Scholarshi~ ( 19’76). He edited two
issues of Christianity and Civilization in 1983: The Theology of
Christiun Resistance and Tactics of Christiun Resistance. He edited
Theonomy: An Informed Response (1991).
He is the editor of the monthly financial newsletter, Remnant
Review. He writes two hi-monthly Christian newsletters, Biblical
Economics Today and Christian Reconstructwn, published by the
Institute for Christian Economics.
He lives in Tyler, Texas, with his wife and four children.