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Tools of Dominion: The Case Laws of Exodus Hardcover – August 1, 1990

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Inst for Christian Economics; 1st Edition (August 1, 1990)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 1287 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0930464109
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0930464103
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 4.05 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.75 x 2.75 x 9.5 inches

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Gary North received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Riverside. He served on the Senior Staff of the Foundation for Economic Education, in Irvington-on-Hudson, New York, and is the president of the Institute for Christian Economics. Dr. North’s essays and reviews have appeared in three dozen magazines and journals, including The Wall Street Journal, National Review, The AmericanSpectator, and others.

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Great book. Also, a long read. 'Wish it was available in an audio format.

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Study this and you'll never again get worked over by deracinated Christians and Jews who intentionally distort the Torah. Ammo.

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I love this book and Dr. Gary North's writing as a whole. I've adopted his books as a mentor for my life and worldview.

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Gary North's Tools of Dominion: The Case Laws of Exodus is perhaps one of the most important books ever to be written during the 20th century. Like Rushdoony's Magnum Opus, The Institutes of Biblical Law, Tools of Dominion is a work focusing its commentary on the long neglected aspect of scriptural cause and effect otherwise known as casuistry. Tools of Dominion seeks to provide the reader with a thorough understanding and explanation of economics according to scriptural axioms found in the Old Testament case laws. North says that there is a direct correlation between what a society experiences in terms of social, economic and cultural decline and when it behaves in disobedience to God's declared laws as enunciated in the Old Covenant. Likewise he posits the truth that the positive sanctions of the covenant are also in effect. Thus, nations are blessed socially, economically and culturally when it obeys God's Laws.

Following the form and thinking of previous free market scholars, Von Mises, Hayek, Friedman, etc. North outlines their economic outlines to construct a biblically based free enterprise alternative. North establishes the idea, with a plethora of Scriptural evidence I might add, that economics is not a neutral discipline devoid of divine epistemological presuppositions. On the contrary, given that everything under the sun is created by God, North contends, so too is economics. The discipline itself comes from the mind of God and thus its assumptions concerning value, trade, human interaction, etc. Hence, North makes pertinent queries to help us answer the questions that economics seeks to answer. For example, why is gold valued all over the world? Why does gold have value? Who imputed value to gold and why is that authority to be trusted? What is the basis of a free market economy? Are private property and the 8th commandment related? What does 8th commandment/private property relationship have to do with economics? North's commentary on the 8th commandment deals with issues such as; liability, contracts, labor relations, credit, inheritance, real estate, monopoly, weights and measures, wildlife, future generations, foreigners, the poor and needy, handicapped, the elderly, fraud, extortion, blackmail, armed robbery, victim's rights, restitution and so much more.

Writing a commentary on the bible requires that the writer posses a tremendous amount of biblical acumen as well as archeological and historical knowledge. But writing an economic commentary based on the bible demands that the writer also comprehend the theory and methodology of economics as well as being able to interweave it through the biblical and historical disciplines without losing his audience. Not an easy task but North pulls it off. North also details an economic system based on biblical ethics, scriptural victim's rights, property rights and voluntary human action based on the image of God and divine liberty. Socialism and Communism notwithstanding, they are thoroughly rejected and exposed as evil statist systems that seek to make the State the ultimate measure of man's experience and to be god on earth. Hence, I suspect that a good number of those who read this treatise will probably concur that in large part the theological ideology of biblical casuistry, whether it's epistemologically acknowledged or not, is the driving ideological force behind many of the movements of conservative Christians throughout the United States.

The chapter on "A Biblical Theology of Slavery" is perhaps one of the best I have ever read. North outlines the difference between biblical slavery (Indentured Servitude) and American chattel slavery. Chattel slavery was practiced in the United States and it is in this form of slavery (Chattel) where human beings were viewed, defined and treated as property. As such, men, women and children had no hope of freedom. How could they? They were not even recognized as human beings, but like cattle or a piece of furniture, they were treated as sub human. Indentured Slavery, as was practiced in the Bible, is completely different. In indentured slavery humans were recognized as people. Many entered this `indentured' relationship to pay off debts or to be cared for but they had the right, as humans, granted to them to live, to be recognized as citizens and as such and to look forward to freedom. This is why in Leviticus you had the seven year law that cancelled debts and the year of Jubilee which released all those under slavery. None of that went on here in the United States. But for that matter none of that happened in Africa either where for hundreds of years, commencing in the late 700's, the Islamic advance, with the sword, captured, killed, destroyed and enslaved millions of Africans, something modern liberal scholars refuse to acknowledge.

Another chapter which thoroughly challenged my thought and I trust will challenge yours was "Feasts and Citizenship." Have you ever considered what should be the basis for participation and rulership in any given society? Do you simply default to the fourteenth amendment and accept American birthright within the borders as the basis for being able to participate within a society in order to rule? According to North Trinitarian baptism is the basis of rulership in God's theocratic order. That said, I could go and on but I will leave the rest of my thoughts up to your imagination suffice it to say, get this book and digest it! It will change your life.

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I'm of the opinion that this is Dr. North's most important commentary to date since he work out, at length, what changes would need to take place in society to bring it into conformity with Exodus' case law. While I think his book on "Political Polythism" is a more important philosophical work, this is the best of his commentaries to date.

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