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Justice : rights and wrongs
Title:
Justice : rights and wrongs
Author:
Wolterstorff, Nicholas
ISBN:
9780691129679
Publication Information:
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2008
Physical Description:
xiv, 400 p. ; 25 cm
General Note:
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents:
Part One: The Archeology of Rights -- Two Conceptions of Justice -- A Contest of Narratives -- Justice in the Old Testament/Hebrew Bible -- On De-Justicizing the New Testament -- Justice in the New Testament Gospels -- Part Two: Fusion of Narrative with Theory: The Goods to Which We Have Rights -- Locating That to Which We Have Rights -- Why Eudaimonism Will Not Work as a Framework for a Theory of Rights -- Augustine's Break with Eudaemonism -- The Incursion of the Moral Vision of Scripture into Late Antiquity -- Characterizing the Life-Goods Constitutive of Flourishing -- Part Three: Theory: Having a Right to a Good -- Accounting for Rights -- Rights Not Grounded in Duties -- The Nature and Grounding of Natural Human Rights -- Is a Secular Grounding of Human Rights Possible? -- A Theological Grounding of Human Rights -- Beyond the Rights of Persons and Human Beings -- Epilogue Concluding Reflections.
Subject:
Christianity and justice
Human rights -- Religious aspects -- Christianity