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1 online resource (xii, 243 pages) |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-232) and index. |
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Introduction -- A dialectical boundary discourse : secular and religious -- Are human rights ahistorical? -- Are human rights universal? -- A dialectical boundary discourse of human flourishing -- The Charter of the United Nations -- The universal declaration of human rights : a fragile and negotiated consensus -- Human rights and the Catholic Church since the Second Vatican Council -- Pope John Paul II and human rights -- The direction of Pope Benedict XVI? -- A crisis of trust -- Theological anthropology and human rights : Karl Rahner's concentration on the human -- Theological engagement with the discourse of human rights -- Imago dei : indicative and imperative -- Karl Rahner : a concentration on the human -- Human capacity for God : supernatural existential -- Human goodness : the "anonymous Christian" -- Human freedom -- Human experience and the experience of God -- Human dignity -- Human suffering -- Human rights in time : realism between memory and hope -- Memory -- The ethics of memory -- Trials and truth commissions : just memory? -- Towards just memory : a Guatemalan case study -- Theology towards just memory : the haunted tardiness of Johann Baptist Metz -- The influence of Karl Rahner -- Political theology -- Memory : dangerous memory -- Narrative : dangerous stories -- Solidarity : dangerous responsibility -- Auschwitz : an interruption that orients -- Challenge : a future based on the memory of suffering -- Silence and interruptive realism -- Liberation theology and human rights : from interruptive realism to the centrality of La realidad -- Liberation theology and human rights -- The preferential option for the poor -- Who are the poor? -- The rights of the poor -- A mysticism of human rights -- From interruptive realism to the centrality of La realidad -- The weight of reality : Ignacio Ellacuría -- Rights-holders or beggars : responding to the post-liberal critique -- "Disdain" for the secular : the refusal of a rival -- A preference for a theological politics over political theology -- Impatience with the provisional. |
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Print version record. |
| 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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Human rights -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church.
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Human rights -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
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RELIGION -- Christianity -- General.
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RELIGION -- Christian Life -- Social Issues.
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RELIGION -- Christian Theology -- Ethics.
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Human rights -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church.
(OCoLC)fst00963315
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Human rights -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
(OCoLC)fst00963318
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Regan, Ethna. Theology and the boundary discourse of human rights. Washington, DC : Georgetown University Press, ©2010 9781589016422 (DLC) 2009024820 (OCoLC)421532190 |
| ISBN |
9781589016583 (electronic bk.) |
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1589016580 (electronic bk.) |
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