The Ethics of Human Rights: Contested Doctrinal and Moral IssuesBaylor University Press, 2007 - 221 Seiten 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. |
Inhalt
The Question of Rights | 21 |
On the Relation between Divine Law and Human Law | 43 |
Revelation and Christ the Measure of Natural Rights | 67 |
117 | 91 |
Gods Command to Multiply and the Right to Reproduce | 107 |
Animal Rights and the Responsibilities of Dominion | 133 |
War Democracy and the Retreat from Human Rights | 147 |
Afterword | 167 |
Index | 201 |
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