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‘Endowed by Their Creator’?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 July 2008

Lord Bingham
Lord Bingham
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Lord of Appeal in Ordinary and Senior Law Lord
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Mainstream religion has little more than an indirect concern with the fundamental nature of human rights. Scripture provides no basis for any systematic code, albeit it espouses the virtues of equality, non-discrimination, and respect for others. There remains within regligious organisations an uncritical respect for authority and repeated emphasis on the dominance of the male. Rather, the articulation of human rights as a coherent and justiciable entity was the product of political turmoil, rebellion and war. That the expression of such rights is consistent with Christian teaching, however, is to be welcomed and valued. This article is an edited version of the Warburton Lecture delivered by Lord Bingham in Lincoln's Inn, London, on 15 June 2003. It is reproduced with permission.

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Ecclesiastical Law Journal , Volume 8 , Issue 37 , July 2005 , pp. 173 - 185
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Copyright © Ecclesiastical Law Society 2005

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