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Acton Institute Names Hunter Baker Recipient of 2011 Novak Award

 

Evangelical author and academic, Dr. Hunter Baker, is the winner of Acton Institute’s 2011 Novak Award.

With his writing and speaking in a variety of popular and academic contexts, Dr. Hunter Baker has made a compelling and comprehensive case for the integration of the Christian faith into all areas of life, including economics and business. Dr. Baker is the author of The End of Secularism (Crossway Academic, 2009), and serves as associate dean of arts and sciences and associate professor of political science at Union University in Jackson, Tenn. He was selected to deliver the endowed Gheens Lectures titled “The System Has a Soul” at Southern Seminary in 2010. In a recent controversy published in the Journal of Markets & Morality, Baker argued that “the Christian concept of sin and the pursuit of righteousness place valuable limits on economic activity that actually help to maintain the freedom of the marketplace by preventing it from destroying itself.”

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