The ethics of human rights : contested doctrinal and moral issues / Esther D. Reed.
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, G...
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Table of Contents:
- The question of rights
- On the relation between divine law and human law
- Revelation and Christ : the measure of "natural rights"
- Human rights and a tropological reading of Genesis 9:1-17
- God's command to "multiply" and the right to reproduce
- Animal rights and the responsibilities of "dominion"
- War, democracy, and the retreat from human rights.