Gary Chartier
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Gary William Chartier is an American legal scholar, philosopher, theologian, and "left-wing market anarchist." He currently serves as Associate Professor
of Law
and Business Ethics
and Associate Dean
of the School of Business at La Sierra University
in Riverside
, California
. His distinctive approach to market anarchism
is rooted in Kevin Carson's mutualism
, the new classical natural law
theory elaborated by Germain Grisez
and John Finnis
, the "anarcho-conservatism" of Stephen R. L. Clark
, the New Left
-influenced left-libertarian decentralism of Karl Hess
, and the socialism
and individualist anarchism
of Benjamin Tucker
.
, California, at what is now Glendale Adventist Medical Center
. His parents were secretary
and later realtor Helen Lucile Bloodworth Chartier and accountant
and internist Stanley Earl Chartier. He graduated from La Sierra Academy in Riverside in 1984, qualifying as a finalist in the National Merit Scholarship Competition. (Fascinated by constitutions, he had begun his engagement with the law
by striking up a friendship with constitutional consultant and law professor Albert Blaustein
in his early teens, though the two were only infrequently in contact after this.) While he initially planned on a career as a high school
teacher, an interest in political theory spawned by earlier reading of Robert Nozick
, Murray Rothbard
, Robert Anton Wilson
, and Friedrich Hayek
prompted him to refocus his attention on earning a doctorate
in political philosophy
. As an adolescent political activist, he founded the New America Party, broadly libertarian
in ideology; he represented its views (identified exaggeratedly as anarchist for dramatic effect) as a guest on Wally George
's Hot Seat
television show in 1986.
at what is now La Sierra University
in 1987; he graduated magna cum laude and received the University President's Award. Though he had majored in history and political science, his undergraduate study of philosophy
and religion
led to his enrollment in a doctoral program in the philosophy of religion
and theology
at what was then Claremont Graduate School. While at Claremont, where he studied under John Hick
, he applied and was accepted into a PhD program in the Faculty of Divinity
at the University of Cambridge
, where his teachers included Nicholas Lash and Brian Hebblethwaite, and from which he was graduated in 1991. His dissertation, supervised by Hebblethwaite, focused on the idea of friendship
; his examiners were Stephen R. L. Clark
and Michael Banner. By this time, his political views had taken a conventionally social democratic turn.
and California Baptist University
, Chartier enrolled at the UCLA School of Law
. At UCLA, he studied with philosophers including Stephen R. Munzer, Seana Shiffrin, and Pamela Hieronymi, with the political theorist Stephen Gardbaum, with former California Supreme Court Justice Cruz Reynoso
, and with constitutional law scholar Kenneth L. Karst; he graduated in 2001 as a member of the Order of the Coif
and as the recipient of the Judge Jerry Pacht Memorial Award in Constitutional Law
. He had served during law school as Lecturer in Business Ethics at La Sierra; a full-time academic appointment began in September 2001. Following a 2005 stint as Lecturer in Law at Brunel University
, Chartier was promoted to the rank of Associate Professor
and tenured at La Sierra in 2008. He became Associate Dean
of La Sierra's business school
in 2009.
and the fact that his doctoral dissertation had called for radical political decentralization, his earlier work in political theory was, perhaps somewhat inconsistently, statist. It assumed, without criticism, that remedying poverty and reducing subordination, especially in the workplace, required the activity of the state.
By contrast, Chartier's current work in political theory is libertarian
and anarchist in flavor. His return to his libertarian
roots reflects the impact of his encounters with the thought of contemporary left-libertarians Kevin Carson, Roderick T. Long, and Charles Johnson, as well as a renewed appreciation for Stephen R. L. Clark
's critique of state authority. Carson's work, in particular, provided a model for Chartier's reconciliation of his leftist politics with opposition to the state, and helped him to frame a version of left-libertarian market anarchism
informed by insights from a version of natural law
theory.
; as chair of the Riverside County Libertarian Party
; and as an occasional copywriter for AntiWar.Com
. He is a member of the Alliance of the Libertarian Left and is the long-time leader of a Sabbath School
class at the Loma Linda University
Church previously taught by Jack Provonsha
, Fritz Guy
, and David Larson.
.
(and philosophical theology
).
, lying
, and economic life.
Chartier offers an understanding of property rights as constrained but contingent social strategies—reflective of the importance of multiple, overlapping rationales for separate ownership
and of natural law principles of practical reasonableness. This account is distinguished both from Lockean and neo-Lockean views (like those of Murray Rothbard
), which often interpret rights
with respect to justly acquired
property
as absolute, and from consequentialist accounts that might license widespread ad hoc interference with the possessions of groups and individuals. The various property rationales provide good reason for the existence of a stable property system that safeguards autonomy
without justifying an absolutist conception of property rights. Chartier uses this account to ground a clear statement of the natural law
view that some wealth redistribution
is appropriate, but that it is fitting as an individual response to particular circumstances rather than a state-driven attempt to achieve a particular distributive pattern. He advances detailed arguments for workplace democracy
rooted in such natural law principles as subsidiarity
. He discusses natural law approaches to land reform
and to the occupation of factories by workers. And he develops a general natural law account of boycotts.
Chartier's work in natural law
theory has been primarily concerned with reasonable personal action more generally, rather than with political theory—or with anarchism
in particular. However, even in the context of a discussion of natural law
theory, he explicitly challenges the necessity of the state
, and his discussion of law in a natural law context focuses on "communal norms, rules, and institutions"—which need not be maintained using force and which are intended to be understood as elements of a polycentric legal order
—rather than on state-made laws.
Natural law theorists from St. Thomas Aquinas to the present have frequently been statists. They have often rejected consent-based theories of state authority as unrealistic, arguing instead, in a manner similar to David Hume
's, that actually existing states deserve allegiance because of their capacity to preserve order. Chartier contends that the state is not needed to maintain social order, and that natural law theorists need not be attached to it in preference to other means of maintaining order, including custom
, convention
, and various voluntary arrangements. He has also linked his concerns with anarchism
and natural law
theory indirectly by defending anarchism against objections levelled by natural law theorist Mark C. Murphy. Murphy has maintained that all arguments for "philosophical anarchism
" fail because they misconstrue the nature of many people's support for the authority of state-made law and that people who believe in the authority of state-made law are entitled to retain their beliefs in the face of anarchist criticism. Chartier argues in response that for many people, at least, belief in state authority is defeasible and can rightly be undermined by positive arguments against particular justifications for the authority of state-made law.
While supporting vegetarianism and affirming that non-human animals have moral standing, Chartier follows Stephen R. L. Clark
in rejecting consequentialist defenses of vegetarianism
like those offered by Peter Singer
. Singer acknowledges that, on consequentialist grounds, it might seem as if there is little reason for individuals to be concerned about their dietary choices, since few of those choices will actually have consequences for any actual animals. But Singer maintains that some few dietary choices will, by crossing certain demand thresholds, dramatically increase production of animals for food and that taking this possibility into account provides good reason to avoid purchasing meat, since there is a small chance that a single meat purchase might lead to substantial negative consequences for many animals. Chartier dissects Singer's argument, maintaining that it is unsuccessful because it fails to take proper account of the actual characteristics of the meat production market (or any similarly enormous market). He examines in detail consequentialist, natural law, and virtue theoretic accounts of boycotting the meat industry, concluding that both natural law and virtue theory provide limited grounds on which a boycott might be defended, but that consequentialism does not. While he maintains, in tandem with the new classical natural law theorists, that consequentialism is in principle incoherent, he also challenges the factual predictions made by consequentialist proponents of the meat industry boycott.
Chartier has been an active participant in discussions among market anarchists and others about the aptness of "capitalism" as a label for what some participants in the conversation have termed "freed markets"in order to distinguish them from existing economic arrangements, which they see as shot through with statist privilege. He has argued that proponents of genuinely freed markets should explicitly reject capitalism
and identify with the global anti-capitalist movement, while emphasizing that the abuses the anti-capitalist movement highlights result from state-tolerated violence and state-secured privilege rather than from voluntary cooperation and exchange. According to Chartier, “it makes sense for [left-libertarians] to name what they oppose ‘capitalism.’ Doing so . . . ensures that advocates of freedom aren’t confused with people who use market rhetoric to prop up an unjust status quo, and expresses solidarity between defenders of freed markets and workers—as well as ordinary people around the world who use ‘capitalism’ as a short-hand label for the world-system that constrains their freedom and stunts their lives." He has joined Kevin Carson, Charles Johnson, and others (echoing the language of Benjamin Tucker
and Thomas Hodgskin
) in maintaining that, because of its heritage and its emancipatory goals and potential, radical market anarchism should be seen—by its proponents and by others—as part of the socialist tradition, and that market anarchists can and should call themselves "socialists."
that partly parallels logical behaviorist interpretations of talk about consciousness. He suggests that, because we cannot pretend to know what God
is like in se, this sort of reading, while inappropriate when applied to finite persons, could be helpful when used in relation to God.
He suggests that talk about divine action provides a necessary starting point for theological reflection, and argues that the only reasonable way to think about divine action, in turn, is to begin by considering the constraints on credible talk about divine providence
imposed by the reality of suffering and evil. Reviewing a range of options in theodicy
, he concludes that, while their underlying assumptions (and accounts of creation) are different, classical free will
theism
and process theology
lead to very similar predictions regarding what kinds of divine action are to be expected, and that, in connection with the task of constructive theology, there is therefore no need to choose between them, though the differences continue to matter with respect to questions in the philosophy of religion and philosophical theology.
When he does directly addresses questions related to theodicy
, he implies that process philosophy
offers a more satisfactory theodicy than any alternative approach to theism, but he argues that even the process approach has significant difficulty taking proper account of the reality of animal suffering. He maintains that Christian attempts to use the Incarnation
as a component of theodicy are rendered problematic by the need to articulate belief in incarnational Christology using a robust account of divine action, which seems likely itself to make it harder to resolve the problem of evil (if God is in the business of working miracles, as such a robust view implies, why aren't there more of them?).
Chartier argues that divine command views of ethics
turn out to be inconsistent with talk about God's love for the world. Talk about love in this context is meaningful only if some intelligible sense can be given to the notion of the beloved's well being that is independent of the choice of the lover, so the theist cannot maintain that God is love without acknowledging that some objective sense can be given to the notion of creaturely flourishing apart from God's will. The range of reasonable moral principles is constrained by facts about flourishing, and basic moral norms seem credible independently of the divine volition. And imposing obligations over and above those following from these principles would itself be an unloving thing to do.
Criticizing substitutionary
accounts of atonement, Chartier notes that such theories purport to be committed to believe in retributive justice
, and thus fall victim to standard objections to retributivism. At the same time, however, by allowing for substituted punishment
, they imply a view of justice unlikely to be satisfactory to retributivists themselves.
. He is preparing to begin work on a book about anarchism and the philosophy of law.
The Analogy of Love received mixed reviews. In the course of a tepidly favorable assessment, Timothy Gorringe
maintained that some passages disposed him to "reach for the whiskey bottle," though he also observed that the book did "not parade its erudition" and suggested that it was "consistently on the side of the angels." By contrast, Ian Markham
characterized the book as "a rare treat," labelling it "[c]ompelling, well-argued, crystal clear and deeply creative" and identifying it as "[a]n absolute must-read."
Brad Spangler has written about Chartier’s third book: “I'm absolutely giddy about The Conscience of an Anarchist; this book could electrify a generation.” Stephan Kinsella
has described it as "the best of the crop of political 'conscience' books." Free Patriot Press editor and Boston Tea Party national chair Darryl Perry maintains that "Gary Chartier has raised the bar in his new book . . . ." Historian Jeff Riggenbach
maintains that "Libertarians who are now in their teens and twenties could do far worse than to let their own attention be captured by Gary Chartier's Conscience of an Anarchist.
Economic Justice and Natural Law. Cambridge: CUP 2009. 978-0521767200.
The Analogy of Love: Divine and Human Love at the Center of Christian Theology. Exeter: Imprint Academic 2007. 978-1845400910.
"Natural Law and Non-Aggression." Acta Juridica Hungarica [Hungarian Journal of Jurisprudence] 51.2 (June 2010): 79-96.
"Natural Law and Animal Rights." Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence 23.1 (2010): 33-46.
"Proudhon in Green." Rev. of Organization Theory: A Libertarian Perspective, by Kevin A. Carson. Conversations in Religion and Theology 7.2 (Nov. 2009): 230-43.
"In Defence of the Anarchist." Oxford
Journal of Legal Studies 29.1 (2009): 115-38. "Sweatshops, Labor Rights, and Competitive Advantage." Oregon Review of International Law 10.1 (2008): 149-88.
"Divorce: A Normative Analysis." Florida Coastal Law Review 10.1 (Fall 2008): 1-32.
"Marriage: A Normative Framework." Florida Coastal Law Review 9.3 (Spring 2008): 347-434.
"Consumption, Development Aid, and Natural Law." Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights
and Social Justice
13.2 (Spring 2007): 205-57. "The Incarnation and the Problem of Evil." Heythrop Journal 49 (2008): 110-27.
"Niebuhr's Ghost?" Essay rev. of The Good Fight: Why Liberals—and Only Liberals—Can Win the War on Terror and Make America Great Again, by Peter Beinart. Conversations in Religion and Theology 5.1 (2007): 91-115.
(Dunn, Deborah K., and Chartier, Gary.) "Pursuing the Millennium Goals at the Grassroots: Selecting Development Projects Serving Rural Women in Sub-Saharan Africa." UCLA Women's Law Journal 15.1 (Fall 2006): 71-114.
"A Progressive Case for a Universal Transaction Tax." Maine Law Review 58.1 (2006): 1-16.
"Toward a Consistent Natural Law Ethics of False Assertion." American Journal of Jurisprudence 51 (2006): 43-64.
"On the Threshold Argument against Consumer Meat Purchases." Journal of Social Philosophy 37.2 (Sum. 2006): 235-51.
"Non-Human Animals and Process Theodicy." Religious studies
42.1 (2006): 3-26. "Toward a New Employer-Worker Compact." Employee Rights and Employment Policy Journal 9.1 (2005): 51-119.
"Urban Redevelopment and Land Reform: Theorizing Eminent Domain after Kelo." Legal Theory 11 (2005): 363-85.
"Consumers, Boycotts, and Non-Human Animals." Buffalo Environmental Law Journal 12 (Spring 2005): 123-94.
["Reason and the Resurrection."] Essay rev. of The Resurrection of God Incarnate, by Richard Swinburne
. Conversations in Religion and Theology 2.1 (May 2004): 11-28. (Chartier, Gary, and Thomas, John.) "Taking Mission to Market: Revisioning Adventist Business Curricula in the New Millennium." Journal of Adventist Education 66 (April–May 2004): 12-9.
"Peoples or Persons? Revising Rawls
on Global Justice." Boston College International and Comparative Law Review 27.1 (Winter 2004): 1-97.
"Victims and Parole Decisions." Jahrbuch für Recht und Ethik 11 (2003): 405-32.
"Friendship, Identity, and Solidarity: An Approach to Rights in Plant Closing Cases." Ratio Juris 16.3 (Sep. 2003): 324-51.
"Richard Rorty
's American Faith." Anglican Theological Review 85.2 (Spring 2003): 255-82.
"Truth-Telling, Incommensurability, and the Ethics of Grading." Brigham Young University
Education and Law Journal 3.1 (2003): 37-81. "Contested Practices: Arthur Isak Applbaum's Ethics for Adversaries." Jahrbuch für Recht und Ethik 10 (2002): 254-77.
"Natural Law
, Same-Sex Marriage
, and the Politics of Virtue." UCLA Law Review 48.6 (Aug. 2001): 1593-1632. Reprinted in part, with added introduction, as "Marriage in 2004," Spectrum
32.1 (Winter 2004): 4-6. Reprinted in part as "Why We Care about Marriage," Connection (Seventh-day Adventist Kinship International
) 27.6 (Oct. 2003): 3+. "Righting Narrative: Robert Chang, Poststructuralism, and the Limits of Critique." UCLA Asian Pacific American Law Journal 7.1 (Spring 2001): 105-32.
"Civil Rights and Economic Democracy." Washburn Law Journal 40.2 (Winter 2001): 267-87.
"Loving Friends and Loving God." Spectrum
27.4 (Aut. 1999): 11-22. "Epic Fantasy and Christian Theology." Spectrum
19.1 (1988): 9-16.
Rev. of Political Philosophy, Clearly: Essays on Freedom and Fairness, Property and Equalities, by Anthony de Jasay
. Independent Review 15.4 (Spring 2011): 603-6. Rev. of Why Animal Suffering Matters, by Andrew Linzey. Ethics 120.3 (April 2010): 614-7.
Rev. of Nature Red in Tooth and Claw: Theism and the Problem of Animal Suffering, by Michael Jr. Murray. Religious studies
45.3 (2009): 370-2. Rev. of The Politics of Praise: Naming God and Friendship in Aquinas and Derrida, by William W. Young. Theological Book Review 19.2 (2007): 78.
Rev. of All That Is: A Naturalistic Faith for the Twenty-First Century, by Arthur Peacocke, ed. Philip Clayton. Theological Book Review 19.2 (2007): 74.
Rev. of Revelation: From Metaphor to Analogy, by Richard Swinburne. Theological Book Review 20.1 (2008): 153-4.
Rev. of The Dissenting Tradition in American Education, by James C. Carper and Thomas C. Hunt. Journal of Research on Christian Education 16.2 (July-Dec. 2007): 269-73.
(Dunn, Deborah K., and Chartier, Gary.) "Which Human Rights? Which God?" Rev. of Does Human Rights Need God?, ed. Elizabeth M. Bucar and Barbara Barnett. Religion and Human Rights 1 (2006): 105-7.
"Tradition, Dialogue, and Human Rights." Rev. of The Global Face of Public Faith: Politics, Human Rights, and Christian Ethics, by David Hollenbach. Religion and Human Rights 1 (2006): 97-100.
"A Gracious Exchange within the Historical Jesus
Debate." Rev. of The Meaning of Jesus: Two Visions, by Marcus Borg
and N. T. Wright. Spectrum
30.4 (Aut. 2002): 14-20. Rev. of The Ethics of Sex, by Mark Jordan. Theology and Sexuality 16 (March 2002): 121-3.
Rev. of Marriage after Modernity: Christian Marriage in Postmodern Times, by Adrian Thatcher. Theology and Sexuality 12 (Mar. 2000): 120-4.
Rev. of The Beginning and the End of 'Religion, by Nicholas Lash. Andrews University
Seminary Studies 37 (Aut. 1999): 125-8. Rev. of Eros for the Other: Retaining Truth in a Pluralistic World, by Wendy Farley. Andrews University
Seminary Studies 37 (Aut. 1999): 113-7.
Rev. of Ethics and Religion in a Pluralistic Age: Collected Essays, by Brian Hebblethwaite. Andrews University
Seminary Studies 36 (Spring 1998): 128-31.
Rev. of The Challenge of Postmodernism: An Evangelical Engagement, ed. David S. Dockery. Andrews University
Seminary Studies 35 (Spring 1997): 111-4.
Rev. of C. S. Lewis
Index: Rumours from the Sculptor's Shop, by Janine Goffar. La Sierra Criterion 67.6 (Jan. 25, 1996): 9.
Rev. of Clark H. Pinnock on Biblical Authority: An Evolving Position, by Ray C. W. Roennfeldt. Andrews University
Seminary Studies 33 (Aut. 1995): 322-4.
"A Definitive History of Millerism." Rev. of Millennial Fever and the End of the World: A Comprehensive Survey of Millerism and America's Fascination with the Millennium in the Nineteenth Century, by George R. Knight
. Adventist Heritage 16.3 (Spring 1995): 41-3.
Rev. of Keeping the Sabbath Wholly: Ceasing, Resting, Embracing, Feasting, by Marva J. Dawn. Religious Studies Review
18.2 (April 1992): 125-6.
Rev. of Understanding the Trinity, by Alister E. McGrath. Religious Studies Review
17.2 (April 1991): 143.
"Pursuing the Good through Rational Inquiry." Rev. of The Closing of the American Mind
, by Allan Bloom
. Courier [Loma Linda University] 4.2 (Oct. 9, 1988): 4+.
"Adventists as Transformers of Culture." Rev. of The World-Love It or Leave It, by Roger L. Dudley. Spectrum
17.5 (1987): 58-9.
"The Joy of Perfection: An Adventist Theme." Rev. of The Sanctuary and Perfection, by Lauri Onjukka. Spectrum
17.4 (1987): 56-7.
Professor
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of Law
Law
Law is a system of rules and guidelines which are enforced through social institutions to govern behavior, wherever possible. It shapes politics, economics and society in numerous ways and serves as a social mediator of relations between people. Contract law regulates everything from buying a bus...
and Business Ethics
Business ethics
Business ethics is a form of applied ethics or professional ethics that examines ethical principles and moral or ethical problems that arise in a business environment. It applies to all aspects of business conduct and is relevant to the conduct of individuals and entire organizations.Business...
and Associate Dean
Dean (education)
In academic administration, a dean is a person with significant authority over a specific academic unit, or over a specific area of concern, or both...
of the School of Business at La Sierra University
La Sierra University
La Sierra University is a Seventh-day Adventist co-educational university accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges and the Adventist Accrediting Association...
in Riverside
Riverside, California
Riverside is a city in Riverside County, California, United States, and the county seat of the eponymous county. Named for its location beside the Santa Ana River, it is the largest city in the Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario metropolitan area of Southern California, 4th largest inland California...
, California
California
California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...
. His distinctive approach to market anarchism
Market anarchism
Free-market anarchism refers to an individualist anarchist philosophy in which monopoly of force held by government would be replaced by a competitive market of non-monopolistic organizations providing security, justice, and other defense services...
is rooted in Kevin Carson's mutualism
Mutualism (economic theory)
Mutualism is an anarchist school of thought that originates in the writings of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, who envisioned a society where each person might possess a means of production, either individually or collectively, with trade representing equivalent amounts of labor in the free market...
, the new classical natural law
Natural law
Natural law, or the law of nature , is any system of law which is purportedly determined by nature, and thus universal. Classically, natural law refers to the use of reason to analyze human nature and deduce binding rules of moral behavior. Natural law is contrasted with the positive law Natural...
theory elaborated by Germain Grisez
Germain Grisez
Germain Gabriel Grisez is a Catholic moral theologian. Grisez is the author of the three-volume Way of the Lord Jesus. Grisez moves between the spheres of philosophy and theology, articulating a new form of natural law thinking, consonant with the teachings of the Roman Catholic magisterium.Grisez...
and John Finnis
John Finnis
John Finnis , is an Australian legal scholar and philosopher, specializing in the philosophy of law. He is Professor of Law at University College, Oxford and at the University of Notre Dame, teaching jurisprudence, political theory, and constitutional law...
, the "anarcho-conservatism" of Stephen R. L. Clark
Stephen R. L. Clark
Stephen Richard Lyster Clark is a British philosopher and former professor of philosophy at the University of Liverpool.Clark specializes in the philosophy of religion, political philosophy, science fiction, and animal rights...
, the New Left
New Left
The New Left was a term used mainly in the United Kingdom and United States in reference to activists, educators, agitators and others in the 1960s and 1970s who sought to implement a broad range of reforms, in contrast to earlier leftist or Marxist movements that had taken a more vanguardist...
-influenced left-libertarian decentralism of Karl Hess
Karl Hess
Karl Hess was an American national-level speechwriter and author. He was also a political philosopher, editor, welder, motorcycle racer, tax resister, atheist, and libertarian activist...
, and the socialism
Socialism
Socialism is an economic system characterized by social ownership of the means of production and cooperative management of the economy; or a political philosophy advocating such a system. "Social ownership" may refer to any one of, or a combination of, the following: cooperative enterprises,...
and individualist anarchism
Individualist anarchism
Individualist anarchism refers to several traditions of thought within the anarchist movement that emphasize the individual and his or her will over external determinants such as groups, society, traditions, and ideological systems. Individualist anarchism is not a single philosophy but refers to a...
of Benjamin Tucker
Benjamin Tucker
Benjamin Ricketson Tucker was a proponent of American individualist anarchism in the 19th century, and editor and publisher of the individualist anarchist periodical Liberty.-Summary:Tucker says that he became an anarchist at the age of 18...
.
Early years
Chartier was born on December 30, 1966, in GlendaleGlendale
Glendale is the anglicised version of its gaelic name, Gleann Dail, which means valley of fertile, low-lying arable land. The name originates from Scotland.It may refer to:-Places:Australia*Glendale, New South Wales**Stockland, a shopping centre...
, California, at what is now Glendale Adventist Medical Center
Glendale Adventist Medical Center
Glendale Adventist Medical Center is a non-profit organization located in the Los Angeles suburb of Glendale, California. GAMC is one of the city's oldest businesses, founded in 1905, a year before Glendale was incorporated as a city...
. His parents were secretary
Secretary
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and later realtor Helen Lucile Bloodworth Chartier and accountant
Accountant
An accountant is a practitioner of accountancy or accounting , which is the measurement, disclosure or provision of assurance about financial information that helps managers, investors, tax authorities and others make decisions about allocating resources.The Big Four auditors are the largest...
and internist Stanley Earl Chartier. He graduated from La Sierra Academy in Riverside in 1984, qualifying as a finalist in the National Merit Scholarship Competition. (Fascinated by constitutions, he had begun his engagement with the law
Law
Law is a system of rules and guidelines which are enforced through social institutions to govern behavior, wherever possible. It shapes politics, economics and society in numerous ways and serves as a social mediator of relations between people. Contract law regulates everything from buying a bus...
by striking up a friendship with constitutional consultant and law professor Albert Blaustein
Albert Blaustein
Albert Paul Blaustein was an American Civil Rights and human rights lawyer and expert constitutional consultant who helped draft the Fijian and Liberian constitutions, as well as being called in as a consultant for the constitutions of for Zimbabwe, Bangladesh, Cambodia and Peru...
in his early teens, though the two were only infrequently in contact after this.) While he initially planned on a career as a high school
High school
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teacher, an interest in political theory spawned by earlier reading of Robert Nozick
Robert Nozick
Robert Nozick was an American political philosopher, most prominent in the 1970s and 1980s. He was a professor at Harvard University. He is best known for his book Anarchy, State, and Utopia , a right-libertarian answer to John Rawls's A Theory of Justice...
, Murray Rothbard
Murray Rothbard
Murray Newton Rothbard was an American author and economist of the Austrian School who helped define capitalist libertarianism and popularized a form of free-market anarchism he termed "anarcho-capitalism." Rothbard wrote over twenty books and is considered a centrally important figure in the...
, Robert Anton Wilson
Robert Anton Wilson
Robert Anton Wilson , known to friends as "Bob", was an American author and polymath who became at various times a novelist, philosopher, psychologist, essayist, editor, playwright, poet, futurist, civil libertarian and self-described agnostic mystic...
, and Friedrich Hayek
Friedrich Hayek
Friedrich August Hayek CH , born in Austria-Hungary as Friedrich August von Hayek, was an economist and philosopher best known for his defense of classical liberalism and free-market capitalism against socialist and collectivist thought...
prompted him to refocus his attention on earning a doctorate
Doctorate
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in political philosophy
Political philosophy
Political philosophy is the study of such topics as liberty, justice, property, rights, law, and the enforcement of a legal code by authority: what they are, why they are needed, what, if anything, makes a government legitimate, what rights and freedoms it should protect and why, what form it...
. As an adolescent political activist, he founded the New America Party, broadly libertarian
Libertarianism
Libertarianism, in the strictest sense, is the political philosophy that holds individual liberty as the basic moral principle of society. In the broadest sense, it is any political philosophy which approximates this view...
in ideology; he represented its views (identified exaggeratedly as anarchist for dramatic effect) as a guest on Wally George
Wally George
Wally George, born George Walter Pearch , was an American conservative radio and television commentator...
's Hot Seat
Hot Seat (talk show)
Hot Seat is a syndicated, politically-oriented, though often satirical and comedic television talk-show that began in the early 1980s, hosted by conservative commentator Wally George...
television show in 1986.
College and graduate school
Chartier received a bachelor's degreeBachelor's degree
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at what is now La Sierra University
La Sierra University
La Sierra University is a Seventh-day Adventist co-educational university accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges and the Adventist Accrediting Association...
in 1987; he graduated magna cum laude and received the University President's Award. Though he had majored in history and political science, his undergraduate study of philosophy
Philosophy
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and religion
Religion
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led to his enrollment in a doctoral program in the philosophy of religion
Philosophy of religion
Philosophy of religion is a branch of philosophy concerned with questions regarding religion, including the nature and existence of God, the examination of religious experience, analysis of religious language and texts, and the relationship of religion and science...
and theology
Theology
Theology is the systematic and rational study of religion and its influences and of the nature of religious truths, or the learned profession acquired by completing specialized training in religious studies, usually at a university or school of divinity or seminary.-Definition:Augustine of Hippo...
at what was then Claremont Graduate School. While at Claremont, where he studied under John Hick
John Hick
Professor John Harwood Hick is a philosopher of religion and theologian. In philosophical theology, he has made contributions in the areas of theodicy, eschatology, and Christology, and in the philosophy of religion he has contributed to the areas of epistemology of religion and religious...
, he applied and was accepted into a PhD program in the Faculty of Divinity
Faculty of Divinity, Cambridge
Divinity has been taught in the University of Cambridge since its foundation in the early 13th century . The Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity is the oldest professorial chair in the university, being established in 1502...
at the University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge
The University of Cambridge is a public research university located in Cambridge, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest university in both the United Kingdom and the English-speaking world , and the seventh-oldest globally...
, where his teachers included Nicholas Lash and Brian Hebblethwaite, and from which he was graduated in 1991. His dissertation, supervised by Hebblethwaite, focused on the idea of friendship
Friendship
Friendship is a form of interpersonal relationship generally considered to be closer than association, although there is a range of degrees of intimacy in both friendships and associations. Friendship and association are often thought of as spanning across the same continuum...
; his examiners were Stephen R. L. Clark
Stephen R. L. Clark
Stephen Richard Lyster Clark is a British philosopher and former professor of philosophy at the University of Liverpool.Clark specializes in the philosophy of religion, political philosophy, science fiction, and animal rights...
and Michael Banner. By this time, his political views had taken a conventionally social democratic turn.
Law School and La Sierra University Faculty Appointment
After working as the editor of a newspaper in Temecula, California, and of a journal published by La Sierra University, and teaching courses in religion and philosophy at Loma Linda UniversityLoma Linda University
Loma Linda University is a Seventh-day Adventist coeducational health sciences university located in Loma Linda, California, United States. The University comprises eight schools and the Faculty of Graduate Studies...
and California Baptist University
California Baptist University
California Baptist University is a private, Christian, liberal arts university located in Riverside, California, United States. Originally founded in 1950 as California Baptist College, it is controlled by the California Southern Baptist Convention, an organization affiliated with the Southern...
, Chartier enrolled at the UCLA School of Law
UCLA School of Law
The UCLA School of Law is the law school of the University of California, Los Angeles. It has been approved by the American Bar Association since 1950. It joined the Association of American Law Schools in 1952.- History :...
. At UCLA, he studied with philosophers including Stephen R. Munzer, Seana Shiffrin, and Pamela Hieronymi, with the political theorist Stephen Gardbaum, with former California Supreme Court Justice Cruz Reynoso
Cruz Reynoso
Cruz Reynoso is a civil rights lawyer, professor emeritus of law, and the first Chicano Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court . He also served on the California Third District Court of Appeal...
, and with constitutional law scholar Kenneth L. Karst; he graduated in 2001 as a member of the Order of the Coif
Order of the Coif
The Order of the Coif is an honor society for United States law school graduates. A student at an American law school who earns a Juris Doctor degree and graduates in the top 10 percent of his or her class is eligible for membership if the student's law school has a chapter of the...
and as the recipient of the Judge Jerry Pacht Memorial Award in Constitutional Law
Constitutional law
Constitutional law is the body of law which defines the relationship of different entities within a state, namely, the executive, the legislature and the judiciary....
. He had served during law school as Lecturer in Business Ethics at La Sierra; a full-time academic appointment began in September 2001. Following a 2005 stint as Lecturer in Law at Brunel University
Brunel University
Brunel University is a public research university located in Uxbridge, London, United Kingdom. The university is named after the Victorian engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel....
, Chartier was promoted to the rank of Associate Professor
Professor
A professor is a scholarly teacher; the precise meaning of the term varies by country. Literally, professor derives from Latin as a "person who professes" being usually an expert in arts or sciences; a teacher of high rank...
and tenured at La Sierra in 2008. He became Associate Dean
Dean (education)
In academic administration, a dean is a person with significant authority over a specific academic unit, or over a specific area of concern, or both...
of La Sierra's business school
Business school
A business school is a university-level institution that confers degrees in Business Administration. It teaches topics such as accounting, administration, economics, entrepreneurship, finance, information systems, marketing, organizational behavior, public relations, strategy, human resource...
in 2009.
Intellectual development
Chartier had abandoned his earlier libertarian views by the time he entered graduate school. Despite his support for the anti-authoritarian New LeftNew Left
The New Left was a term used mainly in the United Kingdom and United States in reference to activists, educators, agitators and others in the 1960s and 1970s who sought to implement a broad range of reforms, in contrast to earlier leftist or Marxist movements that had taken a more vanguardist...
and the fact that his doctoral dissertation had called for radical political decentralization, his earlier work in political theory was, perhaps somewhat inconsistently, statist. It assumed, without criticism, that remedying poverty and reducing subordination, especially in the workplace, required the activity of the state.
By contrast, Chartier's current work in political theory is libertarian
Libertarianism
Libertarianism, in the strictest sense, is the political philosophy that holds individual liberty as the basic moral principle of society. In the broadest sense, it is any political philosophy which approximates this view...
and anarchist in flavor. His return to his libertarian
Libertarianism
Libertarianism, in the strictest sense, is the political philosophy that holds individual liberty as the basic moral principle of society. In the broadest sense, it is any political philosophy which approximates this view...
roots reflects the impact of his encounters with the thought of contemporary left-libertarians Kevin Carson, Roderick T. Long, and Charles Johnson, as well as a renewed appreciation for Stephen R. L. Clark
Stephen R. L. Clark
Stephen Richard Lyster Clark is a British philosopher and former professor of philosophy at the University of Liverpool.Clark specializes in the philosophy of religion, political philosophy, science fiction, and animal rights...
's critique of state authority. Carson's work, in particular, provided a model for Chartier's reconciliation of his leftist politics with opposition to the state, and helped him to frame a version of left-libertarian market anarchism
Market anarchism
Free-market anarchism refers to an individualist anarchist philosophy in which monopoly of force held by government would be replaced by a competitive market of non-monopolistic organizations providing security, justice, and other defense services...
informed by insights from a version of natural law
Natural law
Natural law, or the law of nature , is any system of law which is purportedly determined by nature, and thus universal. Classically, natural law refers to the use of reason to analyze human nature and deduce binding rules of moral behavior. Natural law is contrasted with the positive law Natural...
theory.
Professional and community involvement
Chartier serves as a member of the editorial board of Libertarian Papers; as a member of the advisory board of and an article reviewer for the Journal of Philosophical Economics; as a member of the advisory board of the Center for a Stateless Society; as a member of the book review board of SpectrumSpectrum (magazine)
Spectrum is the official publication of Adventist Forums, published four times a year. It was established "to encourage Seventh-day Adventist participation in the discussion of contemporary issues from a Christian viewpoint, to look without prejudice at all sides of a subject, to evaluate the...
; as chair of the Riverside County Libertarian Party
Libertarian Party (United States)
The Libertarian Party is the third largest and fastest growing political party in the United States. The political platform of the Libertarian Party reflects its brand of libertarianism, favoring minimally regulated, laissez-faire markets, strong civil liberties, minimally regulated migration...
; and as an occasional copywriter for AntiWar.Com
Antiwar.com
Antiwar.com is a website devoted to opposing aggressive war, imperialism, and assaults on freedom associated with both. The editors describe their politics as libertarian. Their stated motiviation is, "to show how the imperialistic tendencies of the American government lead to a loss of civil...
. He is a member of the Alliance of the Libertarian Left and is the long-time leader of a Sabbath School
Sabbath School
Sabbath School is a function of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, Seventh Day Baptist and some other sabbatarian denominations.-Program Context:...
class at the Loma Linda University
Loma Linda University
Loma Linda University is a Seventh-day Adventist coeducational health sciences university located in Loma Linda, California, United States. The University comprises eight schools and the Faculty of Graduate Studies...
Church previously taught by Jack Provonsha
Jack Provonsha
Jack W. Provonsha was a Seventh-day Adventist lecturer and theologian. He was an emeritus professor of Christian ethics and philosophy of religion at Loma Linda University...
, Fritz Guy
Fritz Guy
Fritz Guy is a Seventh-day Adventist theologian and Research Professor of Philosophical Theology at La Sierra University in Riverside, California. He has worked as a college and university professor, an academic administrator, and a church pastor...
, and David Larson.
Personal life
Chartier and Elenor Webb married on March 4, 2008. One of their two cats is named for American anarchist Lysander SpoonerLysander Spooner
Lysander Spooner was an American individualist anarchist, political philosopher, Deist, abolitionist, supporter of the labor movement, legal theorist, and entrepreneur of the nineteenth century. He is also known for competing with the U.S...
.
Work
Chartier's philosophical work focuses on topics in moral and political philosophy (including legal theory) and the philosophy of religionPhilosophy of religion
Philosophy of religion is a branch of philosophy concerned with questions regarding religion, including the nature and existence of God, the examination of religious experience, analysis of religious language and texts, and the relationship of religion and science...
(and philosophical theology
Philosophical Theology
Philosophical theology is the disciplined employment of philosophical methods in developing or analyzing theological concepts. It therefore includes natural theology as well as philosophical treatments of orthodox and heterodox theology....
).
Moral, political, and legal philosophy
Chartier defends a variant of natural law thinking, which he has employed in discussions of sexualityHuman sexuality
Human sexuality is the awareness of gender differences, and the capacity to have erotic experiences and responses. Human sexuality can also be described as the way someone is sexually attracted to another person whether it is to opposite sexes , to the same sex , to either sexes , or not being...
, lying
Lying
Lying may refer to:* Lie — a deliberate untruth.* Lying a 2011 book by neuroscientist Sam Harris* Lying — a horizontal position* Lying — a 2006 film* Lying — a song by Australian band, Amy Meredith...
, and economic life.
Chartier offers an understanding of property rights as constrained but contingent social strategies—reflective of the importance of multiple, overlapping rationales for separate ownership
Ownership
Ownership is the state or fact of exclusive rights and control over property, which may be an object, land/real estate or intellectual property. Ownership involves multiple rights, collectively referred to as title, which may be separated and held by different parties. The concept of ownership has...
and of natural law principles of practical reasonableness. This account is distinguished both from Lockean and neo-Lockean views (like those of Murray Rothbard
Murray Rothbard
Murray Newton Rothbard was an American author and economist of the Austrian School who helped define capitalist libertarianism and popularized a form of free-market anarchism he termed "anarcho-capitalism." Rothbard wrote over twenty books and is considered a centrally important figure in the...
), which often interpret rights
Rights
Rights are legal, social, or ethical principles of freedom or entitlement; that is, rights are the fundamental normative rules about what is allowed of people or owed to people, according to some legal system, social convention, or ethical theory...
with respect to justly acquired
Rules of Acquisition
The Rules of Acquisition, in the fictional Star Trek universe, are a set of guidelines intended to ensure the profitability of businesses owned by the ultra-capitalist alien race known as Ferengi.-Background:...
property
Property
Property is any physical or intangible entity that is owned by a person or jointly by a group of people or a legal entity like a corporation...
as absolute, and from consequentialist accounts that might license widespread ad hoc interference with the possessions of groups and individuals. The various property rationales provide good reason for the existence of a stable property system that safeguards autonomy
Autonomy
Autonomy is a concept found in moral, political and bioethical philosophy. Within these contexts, it is the capacity of a rational individual to make an informed, un-coerced decision...
without justifying an absolutist conception of property rights. Chartier uses this account to ground a clear statement of the natural law
Natural law
Natural law, or the law of nature , is any system of law which is purportedly determined by nature, and thus universal. Classically, natural law refers to the use of reason to analyze human nature and deduce binding rules of moral behavior. Natural law is contrasted with the positive law Natural...
view that some wealth redistribution
Redistribution (economics)
Redistribution of wealth is the transfer of income, wealth or property from some individuals to others caused by a social mechanism such as taxation, monetary policies, welfare, nationalization, charity, divorce or tort law. Most often it refers to progressive redistribution, from the rich to the...
is appropriate, but that it is fitting as an individual response to particular circumstances rather than a state-driven attempt to achieve a particular distributive pattern. He advances detailed arguments for workplace democracy
Workplace democracy
Workplace democracy is the application of democracy in all its forms to the workplace....
rooted in such natural law principles as subsidiarity
Subsidiarity
Subsidiarity is an organizing principle that matters ought to be handled by the smallest, lowest or least centralized competent authority. The Oxford English Dictionary defines subsidiarity as the idea that a central authority should have a subsidiary function, performing only those tasks which...
. He discusses natural law approaches to land reform
Land reform
[Image:Jakarta farmers protest23.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Farmers protesting for Land Reform in Indonesia]Land reform involves the changing of laws, regulations or customs regarding land ownership. Land reform may consist of a government-initiated or government-backed property redistribution,...
and to the occupation of factories by workers. And he develops a general natural law account of boycotts.
Chartier's work in natural law
Natural law
Natural law, or the law of nature , is any system of law which is purportedly determined by nature, and thus universal. Classically, natural law refers to the use of reason to analyze human nature and deduce binding rules of moral behavior. Natural law is contrasted with the positive law Natural...
theory has been primarily concerned with reasonable personal action more generally, rather than with political theory—or with anarchism
Anarchism
Anarchism is generally defined as the political philosophy which holds the state to be undesirable, unnecessary, and harmful, or alternatively as opposing authority in the conduct of human relations...
in particular. However, even in the context of a discussion of natural law
Natural law
Natural law, or the law of nature , is any system of law which is purportedly determined by nature, and thus universal. Classically, natural law refers to the use of reason to analyze human nature and deduce binding rules of moral behavior. Natural law is contrasted with the positive law Natural...
theory, he explicitly challenges the necessity of the state
Sovereign state
A sovereign state, or simply, state, is a state with a defined territory on which it exercises internal and external sovereignty, a permanent population, a government, and the capacity to enter into relations with other sovereign states. It is also normally understood to be a state which is neither...
, and his discussion of law in a natural law context focuses on "communal norms, rules, and institutions"—which need not be maintained using force and which are intended to be understood as elements of a polycentric legal order
Polycentric law
Polycentric law is a legal structure in which providers of legal systems compete or overlap in a given jurisdiction, as opposed to monopolistic statutory law according to which there is a sole provider of law for each jurisdiction. Devolution of this monopoly occurs by the principle of...
—rather than on state-made laws.
Natural law theorists from St. Thomas Aquinas to the present have frequently been statists. They have often rejected consent-based theories of state authority as unrealistic, arguing instead, in a manner similar to David Hume
David Hume
David Hume was a Scottish philosopher, historian, economist, and essayist, known especially for his philosophical empiricism and skepticism. He was one of the most important figures in the history of Western philosophy and the Scottish Enlightenment...
's, that actually existing states deserve allegiance because of their capacity to preserve order. Chartier contends that the state is not needed to maintain social order, and that natural law theorists need not be attached to it in preference to other means of maintaining order, including custom
Norm (sociology)
Social norms are the accepted behaviors within a society or group. This sociological and social psychological term has been defined as "the rules that a group uses for appropriate and inappropriate values, beliefs, attitudes and behaviors. These rules may be explicit or implicit...
, convention
Convention (norm)
A convention is a set of agreed, stipulated or generally accepted standards, norms, social norms or criteria, often taking the form of a custom....
, and various voluntary arrangements. He has also linked his concerns with anarchism
Anarchism
Anarchism is generally defined as the political philosophy which holds the state to be undesirable, unnecessary, and harmful, or alternatively as opposing authority in the conduct of human relations...
and natural law
Natural law
Natural law, or the law of nature , is any system of law which is purportedly determined by nature, and thus universal. Classically, natural law refers to the use of reason to analyze human nature and deduce binding rules of moral behavior. Natural law is contrasted with the positive law Natural...
theory indirectly by defending anarchism against objections levelled by natural law theorist Mark C. Murphy. Murphy has maintained that all arguments for "philosophical anarchism
Philosophical anarchism
Philosophical anarchism is an anarchist school of thought which contends that the state lacks moral legitimacy while not supporting violence to eliminate it...
" fail because they misconstrue the nature of many people's support for the authority of state-made law and that people who believe in the authority of state-made law are entitled to retain their beliefs in the face of anarchist criticism. Chartier argues in response that for many people, at least, belief in state authority is defeasible and can rightly be undermined by positive arguments against particular justifications for the authority of state-made law.
While supporting vegetarianism and affirming that non-human animals have moral standing, Chartier follows Stephen R. L. Clark
Stephen R. L. Clark
Stephen Richard Lyster Clark is a British philosopher and former professor of philosophy at the University of Liverpool.Clark specializes in the philosophy of religion, political philosophy, science fiction, and animal rights...
in rejecting consequentialist defenses of vegetarianism
Vegetarianism
Vegetarianism encompasses the practice of following plant-based diets , with or without the inclusion of dairy products or eggs, and with the exclusion of meat...
like those offered by Peter Singer
Peter Singer
Peter Albert David Singer is an Australian philosopher who is the Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University and Laureate Professor at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics at the University of Melbourne...
. Singer acknowledges that, on consequentialist grounds, it might seem as if there is little reason for individuals to be concerned about their dietary choices, since few of those choices will actually have consequences for any actual animals. But Singer maintains that some few dietary choices will, by crossing certain demand thresholds, dramatically increase production of animals for food and that taking this possibility into account provides good reason to avoid purchasing meat, since there is a small chance that a single meat purchase might lead to substantial negative consequences for many animals. Chartier dissects Singer's argument, maintaining that it is unsuccessful because it fails to take proper account of the actual characteristics of the meat production market (or any similarly enormous market). He examines in detail consequentialist, natural law, and virtue theoretic accounts of boycotting the meat industry, concluding that both natural law and virtue theory provide limited grounds on which a boycott might be defended, but that consequentialism does not. While he maintains, in tandem with the new classical natural law theorists, that consequentialism is in principle incoherent, he also challenges the factual predictions made by consequentialist proponents of the meat industry boycott.
Chartier has been an active participant in discussions among market anarchists and others about the aptness of "capitalism" as a label for what some participants in the conversation have termed "freed markets"in order to distinguish them from existing economic arrangements, which they see as shot through with statist privilege. He has argued that proponents of genuinely freed markets should explicitly reject capitalism
Capitalism
Capitalism is an economic system that became dominant in the Western world following the demise of feudalism. There is no consensus on the precise definition nor on how the term should be used as a historical category...
and identify with the global anti-capitalist movement, while emphasizing that the abuses the anti-capitalist movement highlights result from state-tolerated violence and state-secured privilege rather than from voluntary cooperation and exchange. According to Chartier, “it makes sense for [left-libertarians] to name what they oppose ‘capitalism.’ Doing so . . . ensures that advocates of freedom aren’t confused with people who use market rhetoric to prop up an unjust status quo, and expresses solidarity between defenders of freed markets and workers—as well as ordinary people around the world who use ‘capitalism’ as a short-hand label for the world-system that constrains their freedom and stunts their lives." He has joined Kevin Carson, Charles Johnson, and others (echoing the language of Benjamin Tucker
Benjamin Tucker
Benjamin Ricketson Tucker was a proponent of American individualist anarchism in the 19th century, and editor and publisher of the individualist anarchist periodical Liberty.-Summary:Tucker says that he became an anarchist at the age of 18...
and Thomas Hodgskin
Thomas Hodgskin
Thomas Hodgskin was an Englishsocialist writer on political economy, critic of capitalism, free-market anarchist and defender of free trade and early trade unions...
) in maintaining that, because of its heritage and its emancipatory goals and potential, radical market anarchism should be seen—by its proponents and by others—as part of the socialist tradition, and that market anarchists can and should call themselves "socialists."
Philosophy of religion and philosophical theology
Chartier's work in the philosophy of religion and philosophical theology has focused especially on theodicy and divine action, but he has also addressed a range of other topics. For instance, he has offered a reading of language about God as personalPersonal God
A personal god is a deity who can be related to as a person instead of as an "impersonal force", such as the Absolute, "the All", or the "Ground of Being"....
that partly parallels logical behaviorist interpretations of talk about consciousness. He suggests that, because we cannot pretend to know what God
God
God is the English name given to a singular being in theistic and deistic religions who is either the sole deity in monotheism, or a single deity in polytheism....
is like in se, this sort of reading, while inappropriate when applied to finite persons, could be helpful when used in relation to God.
He suggests that talk about divine action provides a necessary starting point for theological reflection, and argues that the only reasonable way to think about divine action, in turn, is to begin by considering the constraints on credible talk about divine providence
Divine providence
In Christian theology, divine providence, or simply providence, is God's activity in the world. " Providence" is also used as a title of God exercising His providence, and then the word are usually capitalized...
imposed by the reality of suffering and evil. Reviewing a range of options in theodicy
Theodicy
Theodicy is a theological and philosophical study which attempts to prove God's intrinsic or foundational nature of omnibenevolence , omniscience , and omnipotence . Theodicy is usually concerned with the God of the Abrahamic religions Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, due to the relevant...
, he concludes that, while their underlying assumptions (and accounts of creation) are different, classical free will
Free will
"To make my own decisions whether I am successful or not due to uncontrollable forces" -Troy MorrisonA pragmatic definition of free willFree will is the ability of agents to make choices free from certain kinds of constraints. The existence of free will and its exact nature and definition have long...
theism
Theism
Theism, in the broadest sense, is the belief that at least one deity exists.In a more specific sense, theism refers to a doctrine concerning the nature of a monotheistic God and God's relationship to the universe....
and process theology
Process theology
Process theology is a school of thought influenced by the metaphysical process philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead and further developed by Charles Hartshorne . While there are process theologies that are similar, but unrelated to the work of Whitehead the term is generally applied to the...
lead to very similar predictions regarding what kinds of divine action are to be expected, and that, in connection with the task of constructive theology, there is therefore no need to choose between them, though the differences continue to matter with respect to questions in the philosophy of religion and philosophical theology.
When he does directly addresses questions related to theodicy
Theodicy
Theodicy is a theological and philosophical study which attempts to prove God's intrinsic or foundational nature of omnibenevolence , omniscience , and omnipotence . Theodicy is usually concerned with the God of the Abrahamic religions Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, due to the relevant...
, he implies that process philosophy
Process philosophy
Process philosophy identifies metaphysical reality with change and dynamism. Since the time of Plato and Aristotle, philosophers have posited true reality as "timeless", based on permanent substances, whilst processes are denied or subordinated to timeless substances...
offers a more satisfactory theodicy than any alternative approach to theism, but he argues that even the process approach has significant difficulty taking proper account of the reality of animal suffering. He maintains that Christian attempts to use the Incarnation
Incarnation
Incarnation literally means embodied in flesh or taking on flesh. It refers to the conception and birth of a sentient creature who is the material manifestation of an entity, god or force whose original nature is immaterial....
as a component of theodicy are rendered problematic by the need to articulate belief in incarnational Christology using a robust account of divine action, which seems likely itself to make it harder to resolve the problem of evil (if God is in the business of working miracles, as such a robust view implies, why aren't there more of them?).
Chartier argues that divine command views of ethics
Ethics
Ethics, also known as moral philosophy, is a branch of philosophy that addresses questions about morality—that is, concepts such as good and evil, right and wrong, virtue and vice, justice and crime, etc.Major branches of ethics include:...
turn out to be inconsistent with talk about God's love for the world. Talk about love in this context is meaningful only if some intelligible sense can be given to the notion of the beloved's well being that is independent of the choice of the lover, so the theist cannot maintain that God is love without acknowledging that some objective sense can be given to the notion of creaturely flourishing apart from God's will. The range of reasonable moral principles is constrained by facts about flourishing, and basic moral norms seem credible independently of the divine volition. And imposing obligations over and above those following from these principles would itself be an unloving thing to do.
Criticizing substitutionary
Substitutionary atonement
Technically speaking, substitutionary atonement is the name given to a number of Christian models of the atonement that all regard Jesus as dying as a substitute for others, "instead of" them...
accounts of atonement, Chartier notes that such theories purport to be committed to believe in retributive justice
Retributive justice
Retributive justice is a theory of justice that considers that punishment, if proportionate, is a morally acceptable response to crime, with an eye to the satisfaction and psychological benefits it can bestow to the aggrieved party, its intimates and society....
, and thus fall victim to standard objections to retributivism. At the same time, however, by allowing for substituted punishment
Punishment
Punishment is the authoritative imposition of something negative or unpleasant on a person or animal in response to behavior deemed wrong by an individual or group....
, they imply a view of justice unlikely to be satisfactory to retributivists themselves.
Publications
Chartier is the author of three books—Economic Justice and Natural Law, The Analogy of Love, and The Conscience of an Anarchist—and of articles in journals including the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, Legal Theory, Ratio Juris, the UCLA Law Review, and Religious studiesReligious Studies (journal)
Religious Studies is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by Cambridge University Press. It addresses problems of the philosophy of religion in the context of a variety of religious traditions...
. He is preparing to begin work on a book about anarchism and the philosophy of law.
Reactions to publications
Jonathan Crowe called Economic Justice and Natural Law "important and original." Timothy Chappell declared that it was "[e]ssential reading" and maintained that it was "elegant, clear, and well-informed." According to Stephen Munzer, it was "perceptive, timely, and beautifully ordered" and featured arguments that were "probing and trenchant."The Analogy of Love received mixed reviews. In the course of a tepidly favorable assessment, Timothy Gorringe
Timothy Gorringe
The Reverend Professor Timothy Jervis Gorringe is St Luke's Professor of Theological Studies in the University of Exeter, England.Born in 1946, Timothy Gorringe was educated at St Edmund Hall, Oxford and Sarum Theological College...
maintained that some passages disposed him to "reach for the whiskey bottle," though he also observed that the book did "not parade its erudition" and suggested that it was "consistently on the side of the angels." By contrast, Ian Markham
Ian Markham
Dr. Ian S. Markham was appointed as Dean and President of Virginia Theological Seminary in August 2007. He completed his Ph.D. at the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom where he focused on Christian Ethics. He previously earned an M.Litt. in Philosophy and Ethics from the University of...
characterized the book as "a rare treat," labelling it "[c]ompelling, well-argued, crystal clear and deeply creative" and identifying it as "[a]n absolute must-read."
Brad Spangler has written about Chartier’s third book: “I'm absolutely giddy about The Conscience of an Anarchist; this book could electrify a generation.” Stephan Kinsella
Stephan Kinsella
frame|right|Stephan KinsellaNorman Stephan Kinsella is an American intellectual property lawyer and libertarian legal theorist. His electronically published works are primarily published on his blog and websites associated with the Ludwig von Mises Institute and anarcho-capitalist...
has described it as "the best of the crop of political 'conscience' books." Free Patriot Press editor and Boston Tea Party national chair Darryl Perry maintains that "Gary Chartier has raised the bar in his new book . . . ." Historian Jeff Riggenbach
Jeff Riggenbach
Jeff Riggenbach is an American libertarian journalist, author, editor, broadcaster, and educator.Riggenbach's first book, In Praise of Decadence , argued that the baby boomers turned out to be far more libertarian in their personal philosophy than had been expected.His second book, Why American...
maintains that "Libertarians who are now in their teens and twenties could do far worse than to let their own attention be captured by Gary Chartier's Conscience of an Anarchist.
Books
The Conscience of an Anarchist. Apple Valley, CA: Cobden 2011. 978-1439266991.Articles
- "Pirate Constitutions and Workplace Democracy."
Oxford
The city of Oxford is the county town of Oxfordshire, England. The city, made prominent by its medieval university, has a population of just under 165,000, with 153,900 living within the district boundary. It lies about 50 miles north-west of London. The rivers Cherwell and Thames run through...
Journal of Legal Studies 29.1 (2009): 115-38.
Civil rights
Civil and political rights are a class of rights that protect individuals' freedom from unwarranted infringement by governments and private organizations, and ensure one's ability to participate in the civil and political life of the state without discrimination or repression.Civil rights include...
and Social Justice
Social justice
Social justice generally refers to the idea of creating a society or institution that is based on the principles of equality and solidarity, that understands and values human rights, and that recognizes the dignity of every human being. The term and modern concept of "social justice" was coined by...
13.2 (Spring 2007): 205-57.
Religious Studies (journal)
Religious Studies is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by Cambridge University Press. It addresses problems of the philosophy of religion in the context of a variety of religious traditions...
42.1 (2006): 3-26.
Richard Swinburne
Richard G. Swinburne is an Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oxford. Over the last 50 years Swinburne has been a very influential proponent of philosophical arguments for the existence of God. His philosophical contributions are primarily in philosophy of religion and...
. Conversations in Religion and Theology 2.1 (May 2004): 11-28.
Rawls
-Education:* Rawls College of Business, a business school at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas-Fictional characters:* Reggie Rawls, Oz character* William Rawls, The Wire character-People:* John Rawls , philosopher...
on Global Justice."
Richard Rorty
Richard McKay Rorty was an American philosopher. He had a long and diverse academic career, including positions as Stuart Professor of Philosophy at Princeton, Kenan Professor of Humanities at the University of Virginia, and Professor of Comparative Literature at Stanford University...
's American Faith."
Brigham Young University
Brigham Young University is a private university located in Provo, Utah. It is owned and operated by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints , and is the United States' largest religious university and third-largest private university.Approximately 98% of the university's 34,000 students...
Education and Law Journal 3.1 (2003): 37-81.
Natural law
Natural law, or the law of nature , is any system of law which is purportedly determined by nature, and thus universal. Classically, natural law refers to the use of reason to analyze human nature and deduce binding rules of moral behavior. Natural law is contrasted with the positive law Natural...
, Same-Sex Marriage
Same-sex marriage
Same-sex marriage is marriage between two persons of the same biological sex or social gender. Supporters of legal recognition for same-sex marriage typically refer to such recognition as marriage equality....
, and the Politics of Virtue."
Spectrum (magazine)
Spectrum is the official publication of Adventist Forums, published four times a year. It was established "to encourage Seventh-day Adventist participation in the discussion of contemporary issues from a Christian viewpoint, to look without prejudice at all sides of a subject, to evaluate the...
32.1 (Winter 2004): 4-6. Reprinted in part as "Why We Care about Marriage," Connection (Seventh-day Adventist Kinship International
Seventh-day Adventist Kinship International
Seventh-day Adventist Kinship International is a support organization that provides a spiritual and social community to current and former Seventh-day Adventists who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and/or intersex , and have felt hurt or rejected because of their sexual orientation and/or...
) 27.6 (Oct. 2003): 3+.
Spectrum (magazine)
Spectrum is the official publication of Adventist Forums, published four times a year. It was established "to encourage Seventh-day Adventist participation in the discussion of contemporary issues from a Christian viewpoint, to look without prejudice at all sides of a subject, to evaluate the...
27.4 (Aut. 1999): 11-22.
Spectrum (magazine)
Spectrum is the official publication of Adventist Forums, published four times a year. It was established "to encourage Seventh-day Adventist participation in the discussion of contemporary issues from a Christian viewpoint, to look without prejudice at all sides of a subject, to evaluate the...
19.1 (1988): 9-16.
Book reviews
- Rev. of
Anthony de Jasay
Anthony de Jasay is a Hungarian-born philosopher and economist known for his anti-statist writings. He was born at Aba, Hungary in 1925. . He was educated at Szekesfehervar and Budapest, taking a degree in Agriculture...
. Independent Review 15.4 (Spring 2011): 603-6.
Religious Studies (journal)
Religious Studies is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by Cambridge University Press. It addresses problems of the philosophy of religion in the context of a variety of religious traditions...
45.3 (2009): 370-2.
Historical Jesus
The term historical Jesus refers to scholarly reconstructions of the 1st-century figure Jesus of Nazareth. These reconstructions are based upon historical methods including critical analysis of gospel texts as the primary source for his biography, along with consideration of the historical and...
Debate." Rev. of
Marcus Borg
Marcus J. Borg is an American Biblical scholar and author. He is a fellow of the Jesus Seminar, holds a DPhil degree from Oxford University and is Hundere Distinguished Professor of Religion and Culture, an endowed chair, at Oregon State University, from which he retired in 2007...
and N. T. Wright. Spectrum
Spectrum (magazine)
Spectrum is the official publication of Adventist Forums, published four times a year. It was established "to encourage Seventh-day Adventist participation in the discussion of contemporary issues from a Christian viewpoint, to look without prejudice at all sides of a subject, to evaluate the...
30.4 (Aut. 2002): 14-20.
Andrews University
Andrews University is a Seventh-day Adventist university in Berrien Springs, Michigan, United States. Founded in 1874 as Battle Creek College in Battle Creek, Michigan, it was the first higher education facility started by Seventh-day Adventists, and is the flagship university of the Seventh-day...
Seminary Studies 37 (Aut. 1999): 125-8.
Andrews University
Andrews University is a Seventh-day Adventist university in Berrien Springs, Michigan, United States. Founded in 1874 as Battle Creek College in Battle Creek, Michigan, it was the first higher education facility started by Seventh-day Adventists, and is the flagship university of the Seventh-day...
Seminary Studies 37 (Aut. 1999): 113-7.
Andrews University
Andrews University is a Seventh-day Adventist university in Berrien Springs, Michigan, United States. Founded in 1874 as Battle Creek College in Battle Creek, Michigan, it was the first higher education facility started by Seventh-day Adventists, and is the flagship university of the Seventh-day...
Seminary Studies 36 (Spring 1998): 128-31.
Andrews University
Andrews University is a Seventh-day Adventist university in Berrien Springs, Michigan, United States. Founded in 1874 as Battle Creek College in Battle Creek, Michigan, it was the first higher education facility started by Seventh-day Adventists, and is the flagship university of the Seventh-day...
Seminary Studies 35 (Spring 1997): 111-4.
C. S. Lewis
Clive Staples Lewis , commonly referred to as C. S. Lewis and known to his friends and family as "Jack", was a novelist, academic, medievalist, literary critic, essayist, lay theologian and Christian apologist from Belfast, Ireland...
Index: Rumours from the Sculptor's Shop, by Janine Goffar. La Sierra Criterion 67.6 (Jan. 25, 1996): 9.
Andrews University
Andrews University is a Seventh-day Adventist university in Berrien Springs, Michigan, United States. Founded in 1874 as Battle Creek College in Battle Creek, Michigan, it was the first higher education facility started by Seventh-day Adventists, and is the flagship university of the Seventh-day...
Seminary Studies 33 (Aut. 1995): 322-4.
George R. Knight
George Raymond Knight is a Seventh-day Adventist historian and educator. He is emeritus professor of church history at Andrews University.- Biography :Knight joined the Adventist church through the ministry of Ralph Larson...
. Adventist Heritage 16.3 (Spring 1995): 41-3.
Religious Studies Review
Religious Studies Review is the journal of the Council of Societies for the Study of Religion , which is based at Rice University. The journal is published quarterly by Wiley-Blackwell....
18.2 (April 1992): 125-6.
Religious Studies Review
Religious Studies Review is the journal of the Council of Societies for the Study of Religion , which is based at Rice University. The journal is published quarterly by Wiley-Blackwell....
17.2 (April 1991): 143.
The Closing of the American Mind
The Closing of the American Mind, by Allan Bloom , describes "how higher education has failed democracy and impoverished the souls of today's students." He focuses especially upon the "openness" of relativism as leading paradoxically to the great "closing" referenced in the book's title...
, by Allan Bloom
Allan Bloom
Allan David Bloom was an American philosopher, classicist, and academic. He studied under David Grene, Leo Strauss, Richard McKeon and Alexandre Kojève. He subsequently taught at Cornell University, the University of Toronto, Yale University, École Normale Supérieure of Paris, and the University...
. Courier [Loma Linda University] 4.2 (Oct. 9, 1988): 4+.
Spectrum (magazine)
Spectrum is the official publication of Adventist Forums, published four times a year. It was established "to encourage Seventh-day Adventist participation in the discussion of contemporary issues from a Christian viewpoint, to look without prejudice at all sides of a subject, to evaluate the...
17.5 (1987): 58-9.
Spectrum (magazine)
Spectrum is the official publication of Adventist Forums, published four times a year. It was established "to encourage Seventh-day Adventist participation in the discussion of contemporary issues from a Christian viewpoint, to look without prejudice at all sides of a subject, to evaluate the...
17.4 (1987): 56-7.
Other
- "Anti-Interventionism is Cold Indifference? It Just Ain’t So!" The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty 61.6 (July-Aug. 2011): 4-5.
- Socialist Ends, Market Means: 5 Essays. Tulsa, OK: Tulsa Alliance of the Libertarian Left 2009.
- "Richard SwinburneRichard SwinburneRichard G. Swinburne is an Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oxford. Over the last 50 years Swinburne has been a very influential proponent of philosophical arguments for the existence of God. His philosophical contributions are primarily in philosophy of religion and...
." BlackwellBlackwell PublishingWiley-Blackwell is the international scientific, technical, medical, and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons. It was formed by the merger of John Wiley's Global Scientific, Technical, and Medical business with Blackwell Publishing, after Wiley took over Blackwell Publishing in...
Companion to the Theologians. 2 vols. Ed. Ian MarkhamIan MarkhamDr. Ian S. Markham was appointed as Dean and President of Virginia Theological Seminary in August 2007. He completed his Ph.D. at the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom where he focused on Christian Ethics. He previously earned an M.Litt. in Philosophy and Ethics from the University of...
. OxfordOxfordThe city of Oxford is the county town of Oxfordshire, England. The city, made prominent by its medieval university, has a population of just under 165,000, with 153,900 living within the district boundary. It lies about 50 miles north-west of London. The rivers Cherwell and Thames run through...
: BlackwellBlackwell PublishingWiley-Blackwell is the international scientific, technical, medical, and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons. It was formed by the merger of John Wiley's Global Scientific, Technical, and Medical business with Blackwell Publishing, after Wiley took over Blackwell Publishing in...
2009. 2: 467-74. - "Sine Wave." Songs of Freedom: Tales from the Revolution. By Darryl W. Perry et al. Sandpoint, ID: BookCrossing 2009. 39.
- "Love, Subsidiarity, Equality, and Inclusiveness." Christianity and Homosexuality: Some Seventh-day Adventist Perspectives. Ed. David Ferguson, Fritz GuyFritz GuyFritz Guy is a Seventh-day Adventist theologian and Research Professor of Philosophical Theology at La Sierra University in Riverside, California. He has worked as a college and university professor, an academic administrator, and a church pastor...
, and David Larson. Roseville, CA: Association of Adventist Forums 2008. [329-39] - "Response to Hebblethwaite." Conversations in Religion and Theology 6.1 (2008): 17-23.
- "Self-Integration as a Basic Good: A Response to Chris Tollefsen." American Journal of Jurisprudence 52 (2007): 293-6.
- "Colleges Confront Money Problems." SpectrumSpectrum (magazine)Spectrum is the official publication of Adventist Forums, published four times a year. It was established "to encourage Seventh-day Adventist participation in the discussion of contemporary issues from a Christian viewpoint, to look without prejudice at all sides of a subject, to evaluate the...
35.4 (Fall 2007): 11-2. - "Two Faces of the Right to Privacy in Litigators' Ethics." Litigation Ethics (American Bar AssociationAmerican Bar AssociationThe American Bar Association , founded August 21, 1878, is a voluntary bar association of lawyers and law students, which is not specific to any jurisdiction in the United States. The ABA's most important stated activities are the setting of academic standards for law schools, and the formulation...
, Litigation Section, Ethics and Professionalism Committee) 4.2 (Spring 2006): 1+. - "An Adventist Law School?" Dialog (La Sierra UniversityLa Sierra UniversityLa Sierra University is a Seventh-day Adventist co-educational university accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges and the Adventist Accrediting Association...
) 8 (April 2006): 3-4. - "Scholarship as a Requirement for Promotion and TenureTenureTenure commonly refers to life tenure in a job and specifically to a senior academic's contractual right not to have his or her position terminated without just cause.-19th century:...
at La Sierra UniversityLa Sierra UniversityLa Sierra University is a Seventh-day Adventist co-educational university accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges and the Adventist Accrediting Association...
." Dialogue (La Sierra UniversityLa Sierra UniversityLa Sierra University is a Seventh-day Adventist co-educational university accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges and the Adventist Accrediting Association...
) 6 (June 2005): 1-3. - "The Christian in Business: Beyond Honesty." College and University Dialogue 17.1 (2005): 5-8.
- "Are Friendships Limited to Good People?" (SpectrumSpectrum (magazine)Spectrum is the official publication of Adventist Forums, published four times a year. It was established "to encourage Seventh-day Adventist participation in the discussion of contemporary issues from a Christian viewpoint, to look without prejudice at all sides of a subject, to evaluate the...
on-line). - "Live and Let Live: An Interview with Stephen R. L. ClarkStephen R. L. ClarkStephen Richard Lyster Clark is a British philosopher and former professor of philosophy at the University of Liverpool.Clark specializes in the philosophy of religion, political philosophy, science fiction, and animal rights...
." SpectrumSpectrum (magazine)Spectrum is the official publication of Adventist Forums, published four times a year. It was established "to encourage Seventh-day Adventist participation in the discussion of contemporary issues from a Christian viewpoint, to look without prejudice at all sides of a subject, to evaluate the...
31.3 (Sum. 2003): 46-9. - "The Rule of Double Effect: A Valuable Contemporary Resource." Update (Loma Linda UniversityLoma Linda UniversityLoma Linda University is a Seventh-day Adventist coeducational health sciences university located in Loma Linda, California, United States. The University comprises eight schools and the Faculty of Graduate Studies...
Center for Christian Bioethics) 16.4 (Dec. 2000): 1+. - (ed. and intro.) Letters to Phillip: A Classic Series from the 1966-7 Criterion, by Jonathan M. Butler. Riverside, CA: La Sierra U 1998.
- "Service: An Everyday Opportunity." La Sierra Today Fall 1997: 23.
- (editor, compiler, and contributing writer) "A Tradition of Progress: A Brief History of La Sierra UniversityLa Sierra UniversityLa Sierra University is a Seventh-day Adventist co-educational university accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges and the Adventist Accrediting Association...
." La Sierra Today Fall 1997: 6+. - "La Sierra UniversityLa Sierra UniversityLa Sierra University is a Seventh-day Adventist co-educational university accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges and the Adventist Accrediting Association...
." Seventh-day Adventist Encyclopædia. 2nd rev. ed. HagerstownHagerstownHagerstown is the name of two places in the United States of America:*Hagerstown, Indiana*Hagerstown, Maryland**Hagerstown Metropolitan Area...
, MD: ReviewReview and Herald Publishing AssociationThe Review and Herald Publishing Association is one of two major Seventh-day Adventist publishing houses in North America and is the oldest institution of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. The organization publishes books, magazines, study guides, CDs, videos and games for Adventist churches,...
1996. - "Welcoming the Third Millennium." SpectrumSpectrum (magazine)Spectrum is the official publication of Adventist Forums, published four times a year. It was established "to encourage Seventh-day Adventist participation in the discussion of contemporary issues from a Christian viewpoint, to look without prejudice at all sides of a subject, to evaluate the...
25.4 (June 1996): 21-4. - "Richard RiceRichard RiceT. Richard Rice is a Seventh-day Adventist theologian and author. He is a leading proponent of "open theism", a term he invented, which describes a controversial understanding of God...
's Openness of God Causes Stir among Evangelicals." SpectrumSpectrum (magazine)Spectrum is the official publication of Adventist Forums, published four times a year. It was established "to encourage Seventh-day Adventist participation in the discussion of contemporary issues from a Christian viewpoint, to look without prejudice at all sides of a subject, to evaluate the...
24.5 (June 1995): 54-5. - (assoc. ed.) Teel, Charles, ed. Remnant and Republic: Adventist Themes for Personal and Social Ethics. Loma Linda, CA: Loma Linda U Center for Christian Bioethics 1995.
- (Daily, Steve, with Chartier, Gary.) "The Religious Significance of Campus Diversity." La Sierra Today Winter 1994: 12.
- "The Debate about Adventist Identity." Opinion [England] 6.1 (May 1992): 4-9. Reprinted, with alterations, as "The Cynic and the Church: Some Theological Reflections." SpectrumSpectrum (magazine)Spectrum is the official publication of Adventist Forums, published four times a year. It was established "to encourage Seventh-day Adventist participation in the discussion of contemporary issues from a Christian viewpoint, to look without prejudice at all sides of a subject, to evaluate the...
21.4 (Jan.-Mar 1993): 11-8. - "Student Life and the Future of Adventist Higher Education." Journal of Adventist Education 38 (Dec. 1992-Jan. 1993): 22-7.
- "Southeastern Will Ordain Women—Someday." SpectrumSpectrum (magazine)Spectrum is the official publication of Adventist Forums, published four times a year. It was established "to encourage Seventh-day Adventist participation in the discussion of contemporary issues from a Christian viewpoint, to look without prejudice at all sides of a subject, to evaluate the...
22.5 (Oct. 1992): 56-7. - "Divine Creation and Human Caring." Dialogue [Loma Linda University Church] 3.3 (Mar. 1992): 3.
- "Lab, Evangelist, and Home." SpectrumSpectrum (magazine)Spectrum is the official publication of Adventist Forums, published four times a year. It was established "to encourage Seventh-day Adventist participation in the discussion of contemporary issues from a Christian viewpoint, to look without prejudice at all sides of a subject, to evaluate the...
21.1 (Dec. 1990): 30-3. - "From La Sierra to Cambridge: Growing Up Theologically." SpectrumSpectrum (magazine)Spectrum is the official publication of Adventist Forums, published four times a year. It was established "to encourage Seventh-day Adventist participation in the discussion of contemporary issues from a Christian viewpoint, to look without prejudice at all sides of a subject, to evaluate the...
20.2 (Dec. 1989): 2-7. - "Babylon the Mystery." Collegiate Quarterly 12.3 (July-Sept. 1989): 64-5.
- "Proclaiming the Fall of Babylon." Collegiate Quarterly 12.3 (July-Sept. 1989): 68.
- "More than Tithes and Offerings." Collegiate Quarterly 11.4 (Oct.-Dec. 1988): 73.
- "Grace and Dr. Ney." Collegiate Quarterly 10.2 (April–June 1987): 57.
- "'A New Way of Seeing.'" Collegiate Quarterly 10.2 (April–June 1987): 62.
- "'If It Be of God.'" Collegiate Quarterly 10.2 (April-Jun. 1987): 63.
- "Antinomianism Revisited." 'La Sierra Criterion 58.5 (Dec. 15, 1986): 6.
- "Of Liberal Arts and Education." La Sierra Criterion 58.4 (Nov. 15, 1986): 10-1.
- "Contract, Celebration, or Commitment?" La Sierra Criterion 58.3 (Nov. 1, 1986): 9-10.
- "To Loose the Bands of Wickedness." La Sierra Criterion 56.12 (May 5, 1985): 10-1.
- "Undercover Notes." InsightInsight (Adventist magazine)Insight is a weekly magazine aimed at Seventh-day Adventist young people, published by Review and Herald. It has been described as one of the "most important" Adventist magazines.- History :...
15.4 (Jan. 28, 1984): 17.
External links
- LiberaLaw, Chartier's blogBlogA blog is a type of website or part of a website supposed to be updated with new content from time to time. Blogs are usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in...
- "The Anarchist Conscience," Libertarian Tradition feature on Chartier's The Conscience of an Anarchist, with link to Jeff RiggenbachJeff RiggenbachJeff Riggenbach is an American libertarian journalist, author, editor, broadcaster, and educator.Riggenbach's first book, In Praise of Decadence , argued that the baby boomers turned out to be far more libertarian in their personal philosophy than had been expected.His second book, Why American...
podcast incorporating interview with Chartier - Interview with Gary Chartier, Little Alex in Wonderland Radio
- "Radical Health Care Reform: An Anarchist Approach"
- "Getting From There to Here; an autobiographical statement; 8.30.09"
- Center for a Stateless Society bloggers' teleconference featuring Chartier
- "Advocates of Freed Markets Should Embrace 'Anti-Capitalism'" (advance version of a presentation delivered on April 13, 2010, at the annual conference of the Association of Private Enterprise Education, available via the Center for a Stateless Society)
- Articles by Chartier as cataloged in the Seventh-day Adventist Periodical Index (SDAPI)