Title: Legitimizing Human Rights: Secular and Religious Perspectives
Abstract: Contents: Introduction, Angus J.L. Menuge Part I The Foundation of Human Rights: Grounding human rights: naturalism's failure and Biblical theism's success, Paul Copan Theism and human rights, Paul Cliteur Why human rights cannot be naturalized: the contingency problem, Angus J.L. Menuge Human rights as legal rights, Friedrich Toepel. Part II Religious Liberty and the Secular State: Human rights in a secular state will depend on its legal definition of religion, John H. Calvert Balancing secularism with religious freedom: in Lautsi v Italy, the European Court of Human Rights evolved, Vito Breda Restrictions on religious freedom: when and how justified?, John Warwick Montgomery. Part III Enforcing and Motivating Human Rights: No human rights without retribution: plights and promises of redress as if nothing happened, Hendrik Kaptein The motivation to protect and advance human rights: a faith-based approach, Dallas Miller Why is Man the primary and functional way for the Church?: the involvement of Christian teaching in the contemporary human rights discourse, Dobrochna Bach-Golecka Index.
Publication Year: 2013
Publication Date: 2013-08-28
Language: en
Type: book
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