The Center for Biblical Law and Economics operates within the Patrick Henry Institute to promote a biblical understanding of law, civil government, and economics.
With a theological foundation in the Reformed tradition, the Center presents a world view that acknowledges the Lordship of Christ over all of life. Thus, no law can be properly legislated, and no case properly adjudicated, without reference to God's Word. Economics likewise must be informed by Scripture.
As the Center expands, we hope to produce a regular newsletter, conferences, lectures, seminars, educational materials for high school students (particularly home-schooled students), position papers, books, and other research materials. Ultimately we envision a refereed, semiannual Journal of Biblical Law and Economics, targeted toward Christian economists, Christian legal scholars, graduate students, and interested seminary professors and seminarians.
Other worthy groups are doing similar work, and some cooperation with these groups is in view. The Center for Biblical Law and Economics, however, is unique in its explicitly Reformed foundations, and its focused approach to law and economics that probes more deeply than more broad-based groups can.
For more information about the Center for Biblical Law and Economics, and ways you can support its work, please contact Timothy Terrell or write to the address below. The Patrick Henry Institute is a tax-exempt 501-C-3 organization.
The
Center for Biblical Law and Economics
c/o The Patrick Henry Institute
434 Rivermont Avenue
Lynchburg, VA 24504
"Law and economics are necessary aspects of man's daily life: it is impossible to live without them. The more a sound knowledge of law and economics declines in a society, the more radical will the decay of that society be. A decadent and dying society is one in which law and economics are in a state of radical decay or collapse. Together with theology, law and economics constitute the foundations of order in a society, and what men think of law and economics depends on their theology."
Rousas John
Rushdoony
(1916-2001)