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Author_George Newlands
British Human Rights Act
Capital Punishment
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Christian Contribution
Christological Reflection
christology and human rights enforcement
Christomorphic Trace
cross-cultural ethics
De Pace Fidei
Emancipatory Theologies
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hermeneutics of law
Human Rights
Human Rights Culture
Human Suffering
Humane Christology
Intercultural Theology
Johan Van Oldenbarnevelt
Kreisau Circle
marginality studies
Normal Adult Human Beings
Pluralist Christologies
religious pluralism
Roman Catholic Church Today
sacred texts interpretation
Self-giving God
Self-giving Love
theological anthropology
Thin Universalism
Twentieth Century Christian Theology
UN
Vulnerable God
Wentzel Van Huyssteen
Wide Reflective Equilibrium
Product details
- ISBN 9781138410473
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 02 Oct 2017
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Human rights is one of the most important geopolitical issues in the modern world. Jesus Christ is the centre of Christianity. Yet there exists almost no analysis of the significance of Christology for human rights. This book focuses on the connections. Examination of rights reveals tensions, ambiguities and conflicts. This book constructs a Christology which centres on a Christ of the vulnerable and the margins. It explores the interface between religion, law, politics and violence, East and West, North and South. The history of the use of sacred texts as 'texts of terror' is examined, and theological links to legal and political dimensions explored. Criteria are developed for action to make an effective difference to human rights enforcement and resolution between cultures and religions on rights.
George Newlands has been Professor of Divinity at the University of Glasgow, UK, since 1986. He was University Lecturer in Divinity, Cambridge, 1973-86, and Fellow and Dean at Trinity Hall Cambridge, 1982-86. He has written ten books including The Transformative Imagination, Ashgate, 2004.
