Lone Gunners for Jesus: Letters to Paul J. Hill

by Gary North

A book of this grade is solidly good. Very gently read. Spine is sturdy. All pages are intact. Cover is clean. No marks anywhere.

47 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1994

About the author

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 was 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 American Spectator, and others.

Reviews

[Josiah Richardson · Rating 4 out of 5]

North responds to the actions and subsequent letters sent by Paul J. Hill, the man who shot and killed an abortion doctor and his bodyguard in July of 1994. One of the claims of the theonomist movement is that those who break the laws given to Israel that have an associated death penalty, would be put to death in a modern society justly as well. There are of course caveats and exceptions in certain areas, but Paul J. Hill took these and other reconstructionist beliefs to heart, attending lectures by Greg Bahnsen and attending the church led by a minister on Gary North's staff.

As North points out, Hill didn't truly understand the theonomic reconstructionist position. He walks him through several passages and excerpts of his letters, showing inconsistencies and issues with his thinking. The repercussions of Hill's beliefs are one of the things that I struggle with the theonomic position. Asking for a list of what exactly theonomic reconstructionists believe on particular civil justice cases and so forth gets a different answer from each person, similar to asking what a happy marriage looks like. But for both unhappy marriages and a wrong understanding of theonomic reconstructionism, we know it when we see it.

[Bryan Kuranaga · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book communicates the importance of the church and submitting oneself to the elders of a local church. We are under their jurisdiction and care. In addition, God's Law calls for us to not take personal vengeance or specific matters into our own hand, but to go about it with the proper governments [civil or ecclesiastical] He has placed in charge.

[Shawn Paterson · Rating 3 out of 5]

Important.

[Ryan Watkins · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a letter by Gary North rebuking Paul J. Hill for his vigilante behavior towards abortionists.