Theology and the boundary discourse of human rights /
What are human rights? Can theology acknowledge human rights discourse? Is theological engagement with human rights justified? What place should this discourse occupy within ethics? Ethna Regan seeks to answer these questions about human rights, Christian theology, and philosophical ethics. The main...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Washington, DC :
Georgetown University Press,
©2010.
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| Summary: | What are human rights? Can theology acknowledge human rights discourse? Is theological engagement with human rights justified? What place should this discourse occupy within ethics? Ethna Regan seeks to answer these questions about human rights, Christian theology, and philosophical ethics. The main purpose of this book is to justify and explore theological engagement with human rights. Regan illustrates how that engagement is both ecumenical and diverse, citing the emerging engagement with human rights discourse by evangelical theologians in response to the War on Terror. The book examines wh. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 243 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-232) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781589016583 1589016580 1589016424 9781589016422 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |