Christianity and Human Rights: An Introduction

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Edited by John Witte, Jr, Emory University, Atlanta, Frank S. Alexander, Emory University, Atlanta

Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Online publication date: June 2012
Print publication year: 2010
Online ISBN: 9780511761713
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511761713

Subjects: Religious Ethics, Religion

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Combining Jewish, Greek, and Roman teachings with the radical new teachings of Christ and St. Paul, Christianity helped to cultivate the cardinal ideas of dignity, equality, liberty and democracy that ground the modern human rights paradigm. Christianity also helped shape the law of public, private, penal, and procedural rights that anchor modern legal systems in the West and beyond. This collection of essays explores these Christian contributions to human rights through the perspectives of jurisprudence, theology, philosophy and history, and Christian contributions to the special rights claims of women, children, nature and the environment. The authors also address the church's own problems and failings with maintaining human rights ideals. With contributions from leading scholars, including a foreword by Archbishop Desmond Tutu, this book provides an authoritative treatment of how Christianity shaped human rights in the past, and how Christianity and human rights continue to challenge each other in modern times.

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An Introduction

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Frontmatter
pp i-vi

Contents
pp vii-viii

List of contributors
pp ix-x

Acknowledgements
pp xi-xii

The first word: to be human is to be free
pp 1-7

Introduction
pp 8-44

FOUNDATIONS AND DEVELOPMENTS OF HUMAN RIGHTS
pp 45-46

1 - The Judaic foundation of rights
pp 47-63

2 - Ius in Roman law
pp 64-80

3 - Human rights and early Christianity
pp 81-98

4 - Human rights in the canon law
pp 99-112

5 - The modern Catholic Church and human rights: the impact of the Second Vatican Council
pp 113-134

6 - Rights and liberties in early modern Protestantism: the example of Calvinism
pp 135-154

7 - Modern Protestant developments in human rights
pp 155-172

8 - The issue of human rights in Byzantium and the Orthodox Christian tradition
pp 173-190

CHRISTIANITY AND THE MODERN HUMAN RIGHTS FRAMEWORK
pp 191-192

9 - The human rights system
pp 193-215

10 - The image of God: rights, reason, and order
pp 216-235

11 - Religion and equality
pp 236-252

12 - Proselytism and human rights
pp 253-266

13 - Religious liberty, church autonomy, and the structure of freedom
pp 267-282

14 - Christianity and the rights of children: an integrative view
pp 283-301

15 - Christianity and the rights of women
pp 302-319

16 - Christianity, human rights, and a theology that touches the ground
pp 320-334

17 - A right to clean water
pp 335-350

The final word: can Christianity contribute to a global civil religion?
pp 351-366

Biblical index
pp 367-369

Index
pp 370-390

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