Theology and the boundary discourse of human rights / Ethna Regan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Regan, Ethna.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human rights--Religious aspects--Catholic Church.

Human rights.

Human rights--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (256 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

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

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781589016583

1589016580

OCLC:

648711588