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Christianity and human rights : Christians and the struggle for global justice / edited by Frederick M. Shepherd.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublication details: Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, c2009.Description: xxiii, 270 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780739124727 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0739124722 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780739140093 (electronic)
  • 0739140094 (electronic)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 261.7 22
  • 233.11
LOC classification:
  • BT738.15 .C4753 2009
Contents:
Introduction. The political and theological evolution of Christianity and human rights / Frederick M. Shepherd -- 1. Deliver us from evil : genocide and the Christian world / James E. Waller -- 2. A Dickensian era of religious rights / John Witte, Jr. -- 3. Religious freedom : a challenge for the church / Johannes A. van der Ven -- 4. The enduring alliance of religious freedom and democracy / Joseph Loconte -- 5. Religious freedom and international law / Robert F. Drinan -- 6. Democracy and human dignity / Jean Bethke Elshtain -- 7. Universal rights or personal relations? / Patrick H. Byrne -- 8. Human rights, the common good, and our supernatural destiny / Dana L. Dillon -- 9. Bozena Komarkova : toward an existential Christian philosophy of human rights / Joyce J. Michael -- 10. Catholic social teaching, economic rights, and globalization / John Sniegocki -- 11. Rights, capabilities, and human flourishing / Jonathan Warner -- 12. The rights of the poor : Christian theology and human rights practices in Latin America's Andean region / Thomas Bamat -- 13. Christianity and human rights in Vietnam : the case of the ethnic minorities, 1975-2007 / James F. Lewis -- 14. From human rights to human wrongs : the dramatic turn-about of the South African Pentecostal movement / Nico Horn -- Concluding remarks on Christianity and human rights / Frederick M. Shepherd.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction. The political and theological evolution of Christianity and human rights / Frederick M. Shepherd -- 1. Deliver us from evil : genocide and the Christian world / James E. Waller -- 2. A Dickensian era of religious rights / John Witte, Jr. -- 3. Religious freedom : a challenge for the church / Johannes A. van der Ven -- 4. The enduring alliance of religious freedom and democracy / Joseph Loconte -- 5. Religious freedom and international law / Robert F. Drinan -- 6. Democracy and human dignity / Jean Bethke Elshtain -- 7. Universal rights or personal relations? / Patrick H. Byrne -- 8. Human rights, the common good, and our supernatural destiny / Dana L. Dillon -- 9. Bozena Komarkova : toward an existential Christian philosophy of human rights / Joyce J. Michael -- 10. Catholic social teaching, economic rights, and globalization / John Sniegocki -- 11. Rights, capabilities, and human flourishing / Jonathan Warner -- 12. The rights of the poor : Christian theology and human rights practices in Latin America's Andean region / Thomas Bamat -- 13. Christianity and human rights in Vietnam : the case of the ethnic minorities, 1975-2007 / James F. Lewis -- 14. From human rights to human wrongs : the dramatic turn-about of the South African Pentecostal movement / Nico Horn -- Concluding remarks on Christianity and human rights / Frederick M. Shepherd.

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