Spencer Heath Archive

Item 1624

Carbon of a letter from Heath to John Chamberlain, 840 N. Brooksvale Road, Cheshire, Connecticut

June 4, 1957

 

 

 

Dear John:

Members of the Christian Freedom Foundation gave quite cordial response to the paper on “The Practice of Christian Freedom,” which I read at their Annual Meeting a month ago. I am sending you a copy of this thinking you may like it and that it might suggest a possible religious foundation for libertarian support of free-enterprise capitalism and all that it implies. I have long felt that the libertarian movement was handicapped for want of emotional fire and enthusiasm as well for want of a transcendent ideal.

What I have written is from the peculiarly Chris­tian point of view without being denominational in any other respect. I think this is as it should be, since the whole totalitarian movement is avowedly anti-Christian — and quite consistently so.

Cordially,

 

SH/m

Enc:  “The Practice of Christian Freedom”