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.