Dominion Covenant, The

In this excellent, but somewhat flawed, book, Gary North makes a compelling case for the establishment of a genuinely Christian system of economics that can only be based on the infallible and inerrant word of God. This case, and its implications for mankind, North makes convincingly and clearly throughout this lengthy book, much of the space in the scholarly appendices taken up by in-depth and point-by-point examinations of the fatal flaws in all humanistic theories of economics. The book's primary benefit is in showing how in time and on this earth, God's laws are enforced on nations and people, whether they admit the applicability of God's laws or not. In addition, the analysis of Jacob and Esau is a fine piece of scholarship and a defense of prudential morality very much needed in this age of Kantian pietism. Though the book has much to commend it, its flaws ultimately render it a less than perfect status, and those flaws can be summed up in two areas: one, the book makes an incoherent and gnostic defense of Sunday worship by Christians that implicitly denies the right of God to define what day man is to worship (the seventh day Sabbath), and two, the references to the unbliblical and heretical doctrine of the trinity that the author fatuously claims is the only starting place for any proof of God. These flaws are serious, but if one is willing to charitably pass them over, there is much of worth about this book that deserves study and application.