Christianity and human rights : an introduction /

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Imprint:	Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, c2010.
Description:	xii, 390 p. ; 23 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Human rights -- Religious aspects -- Christianity. Christianity -- Influence. Human rights -- History. Christianity -- Influence. Human rights. Human rights -- Religious aspects -- Christianity. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8350858

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Other authors / contributors:	Witte, John, Jr., 1959- ed. Alexander, Frank S., 1952- ed. Helmholz, R. H.
ISBN:	9780521194419 (hardback) 0521194415 (hardback) 9780521143745 (pbk.) 0521143748 (pbk.)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"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"--Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents:

List of contributors
Acknowledgements
The first word: to be human is to be free
Introduction
Foundations and Developments of Human Rights
1. The Judaic foundation of rights
2. Ius in Roman law
3. Human rights and early Christianity
4. Human rights in the canon law
5. The modern Catholic Church and human rights: the impact of the Second Vatican Council
6. Rights and liberties in early modern Protestantism: the example of Calvinism
7. Modern Protestant developments in human rights
8. The issue of human rights in Byzantium and the Orthodox Christian tradition
Christianity and the Modern Human Rights Framework
9. The human rights system
10. The image of God: rights, reason, and order
11. Religion and equality
12. Proselytism and human rights
13. Religious liberty, church autonomy, and the structure of freedom
14. Christianity and the rights of children: an integrative view
15. Christianity and the rights of women
16. Christianity, human rights, and a theology that touches the ground
17. A right to clean water
The final word: can Christianity contribute to a global civil religion?
Biblical index
Index

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