Archive for E. Calvin Beisner

Material Progress Over the Past Millennium

E. Calvin Beisner is associate professor of interdisciplinary studies at Covenant College, Lookout Mountain, Georgia, and the author of Prosperity and Poverty: The Compassionate Use of Resources in a World of Scarcity and several other books applying Christian theology and ethics to political economy. An earlier version of this article appeared in World magazine. Reginald [...]

1Nov1999 | | 0 comments | Continued

Must I Not Be Believed?

Calvin Beisner is associate professor of interdisciplinary studies at Covenant College in Lookout Mountain, Georgia, and is completing a Ph.D. in late-seventeenth-century British history and political thought. It was mid-November 1688. King James II of England, heir to his father’s and grandfather’s beliefs in royal absolutism, was desperate. Nobles and gentry of his kingdom had [...]

1May1999 | | 0 comments | Continued

How Environmentalism Disdains the Poor

Calvin Beisner is associate professor of interdisciplinary studies at Covenant College in Lookout Mountain, Georgia, and author of Where Garden Meets Wilderness: Evangelical Entry into the Environmental Debate (Eerdmans, 1997) The late Julian Simon and other wise thinkers have long understood that economic development is necessary to enable people to afford a safe environment. That [...]

1Aug1998 | | 1 comment | Continued

The Greening of the Cross

Professor Beisner is on the faculty at Covenant College, Lookout Mountain, Georgia and is the author of Prospects for Growth: A Biblical View of Population, Resources, and the Future (Wheaton: Crossway Books, 1990). He has done research into global environmental trends for over eight years. Lately thousands of people across America, including me, have received [...]

1Jul1995 | | 0 comments | Continued

The Dilemma of Library Censorship

Calvin Beisner is a visiting lecturer at Covenant College, Lookout Mountain, Georgia. In her 1991 annual report, the librarian of the local public library decried the descent of “book censors” like a “plague” on her library. Yet what she condemns in others she practices herself. She rightly called the effort by some to exclude certain [...]

1Nov1992 | | 0 comments | Continued

Book Review: Economics: Work And Prosperity by Russell Kirk

A Beka Book Publications, P.O. Box 18000, Pensacola, FL 325239160 • 1989 • 398 pages • $12.10 paperback The old adage goes, “Those who can’t, teach.” and many a student can testify that those who can’t teach, write textbooks. The typical elementary- and secondary-school textbook tests the patience and fortitude of every student. Not, of [...]

1Jun1990 | | 1 comment | Continued

Book Review: If Everybody Bought One Shoe: American Capitalism in Communist China by Graeme Browning

Hill & Wang, Keystone Industrial Park, Scranton, PA 18512 * 1989 * 189 pages • $18.95 cloth China has been every merchant’s dream for centuries: a quarter of the world’s population as potential customers. The possibilities for profit are staggering. But for centuries merchants have dealt with unique obstacles in trading with China. and after [...]

1Nov1989 | | 1 comment | Continued

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