About
Founded in 1979 by Gerard Berghoef and Lester DeKoster, Christian’s Library Press has been committed to publishing influential texts on church leadership, the vocation of work, and stewardship for more than 30 years. During that time Berghoef and DeKoster wrote significant works including The Deacons Handbook, The Elders Handbook, and God’s Yardstick, which still are in demand today. After the death of Lester DeKoster in 2009, the imprint is now administered by the Acton Institute for the Study of Religion & Liberty. For more information about Christian’s Library Press, visit www.clpress.com.
With its commitment to pursue a society that is free and virtuous, the Acton Institute for the Study of Religion & Liberty is a leading voice in the international environmental and social policy debate. With offices in Grand Rapids, Michigan and Rome, Italy, as well as affiliates in four other nations around the world, the Acton Institute is uniquely positioned to comment on the sound economic and moral foundations necessary to sustain humane environmental and social policies. The Acton Institute is a nonprofit, ecumenical think tank working internationally to “promote a free and virtuous society characterized by individual liberty and sustained by religious principles.” For more on the Acton Institute, please visit www.acton.org.
Interviews with Institute staff may be arranged by contacting John Couretas at (616) 454-3080 or at jcouretas@acton.org.
Christian Social Thought Books by Acton Institute
- Fair Trade? Its Prospect as a Poverty Solution at FairTradeAndFreeTrade.com
- Pensions, Population, and Prosperity at PensionFundReform.com
- A Theory of Corruption at CausesOfCorruption.com
- A Biblical Case for Natural Law at ProtestantNaturalLaw.com
- The Good That Business Does at BusinessMorality.com
- A Prescription for Health Care Reform at ChristianHealthReform.com
- International Aid and Integral Human Development at ChristiansAndPoverty.com
- Beyond Distributism at BeyondDistributism.com
- Slitting the Sycamore at ChristianityInCulture.com
- Financial Crisis, Populism, and the Path to Prosperity in Latin America at LatinAmericanPoverty.com
- Doing Justice to Justice at ExplainJustice.com
- The Social Mortgage of Intellectual Property at EthicalIntellectualProperty.com
- Liberating Labor: A Christian Economist's Case for Voluntary Unionism at LaborUnionReform.com
- Inhabiting the Land at RightToImmigration.com
- Trial By Fury: Restoring the Common Good in Tort Litigation at TortLawReform.com
- Catholic Education and the Promise of School Choice at CatholicSchoolChoice.com
Other Books from Acton Institute
- Globalization, Poverty, and International Development at PovertyAndGlobalization.com
- Banking, Justice, and the Common Good at BankJustice.com
- Judaism, Law & The Free Market at JudaismFreeMarket.com
- Judaism, Markets, and Capitalism at JudaismAndMarkets.com
- Defending the Free Market at DefendingTheFreeMarket.com
- The Entrepreneurial Vocation at VocationOfBusiness.com
- Toward a Free and Virtuous Society at FreeAndVirtuous.com
- Christian's Library Press publications
- The Social Agenda: A collection of magisterial texts
- On Call In Culture: Abraham Kuyper's Wisdom & Wonder