Ethics of Human Rights

Contested Doctrinal and Moral Issues

Häftad, Engelska, 2007

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Beskrivning

In The Ethics of Human Rights, Esther Reed constructs a Christian theology of ""right,"" ""rights"" and ""natural rights"" and does so in constant awareness of and conversation with the public and political implications of such a theology. Reed's use of Genesis 9:1-17, God's covenant with Noah, enables her critical Christian engagement with issue of right and her application of this Christian theology of rights to the contemporary moral dilemmas of animal rights, the environment, and democracy.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2007-09-04
Mått:160 x 228 x 16 mm
Vikt:372 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:225
Förlag:Baylor University Press
ISBN:9781932792973

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Filosofiska discipliner inom Filosofi och religion

Mer om författaren

Esther D. Reed is Associate Professor of Theological Ethics, University of Exeter, and the author of The Future of Christian Social Ethics (2004), The Genesis of Ethics (2002), and Theological Reading of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit (1996).

Recensioner i media

Esther Reed brings together her reading of the Bible and her reading of the contemporary world to make the case that the Protestant churches should give their wholehearted support to the human rights movement. At the same time, she warns against the hi-jacking of the human rights agenda by the wealthy and the powerful. This is a powerfully argued, creative and persuasive book. --Nicholas Sagovsky, Canon Theologian of Westminster Abbey and Adjunct Professor of Theology and Public Life at Liverpool Hope University

Innehållsförteckning

1. The Question of Rights2. On the Relation between Divine Law and Human Law3. Revelation and Christ the Measure of ""Natural"" Rights4. Human Rights and a Tropological Reading of Genesis 9: 1-175. God's Command to ""Multiply"" and the Right to Reproduce6. Animal Rights and the Responsibilities of ""Dominion""7. War, Democracy, and the Retreat from Human Rights