
By Davis Carlton
Gary North, a prominent founder of the Christian Reconstructionist movement passed away on February 24. North was a prolific author and speaker who frequently wrote and lectured on politics, libertarian economics, the gold standard, and postmillennial eschatology. North was influenced by his future father-in-law, R.J. Rushdoony who convinced him that God’s law serves as the foundation for all Christian morality and ethics. North also became convinced that God’s mandate for mankind to take dominion in Gen. 1:28 coupled with Christ’s Great Commission meant that the Gospel message wasn’t solely concerned with the salvation of individual sinners, but that the Bible also promises the conversion of the nations and consequently the transformation of the social order into conformity with God’s law.