Justice : rights and wrongs / Nicholas Wolterstorff.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wolterstorff, Nicholas.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christianity and justice.

Human rights--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Human rights.

Physical Description:

xiv, 400 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2008]

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9780691129679

0691129673

OCLC:

129952924