Working Draft 7-8-2016 Problem of the religious right? ECONOMICS AND THE SPIRITUAL LIFE OF FREE MEN: A Celebration of Voluntary Exchange Spencer Heath The Chapman College Talks And Selected Essays Edited by Spencer Heath MacCallum 713 W. Spruce Street #48 Deming, New Mexico 88030 915-261-0502
[email protected] Acknowledgments Frances Norton Manning, the author’s friend of many years and hostess in Santa Ana, California, brought him together with Chapman College and proposed these talks be given there. President of the College John L. Davis became a warm friend and sponsored the series. Edward McCrady, Vice Chancellor of the University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee, is well remembered for his inspiring friendship and intellectual hospitality. Spencer Heath had spent the academic year 1954-55 as his guest at Sewanee, auditing advanced courses in theology and building on his vision of the Christian doctrine of man while deeply enjoying the warm, Southern hospitality of the entire University family. Dr. McCrady at the time was writing his book, Seen and Unseen: A Biologist Views the Universe, which harmonized with Heath’s own thinking. Heath well might have dedicated these talks to Dr. McCrady, perhaps in such words as To the living spirit of Edward McCrady and all who seek understanding of the non-political, organic society of men, the Mystical Body of Christ. 3 4 Contents Acknowledgments Editor’s Remarks 7 THE CHAPMAN COLLEGE TALKS Preface 15 Prologue 17 The Free Community and Its Transcendent Function 21 Property and Its Productive Administration: