Justice
Subtitle: Rights and Wrongs
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: January 7, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9780691129679
Subjects: Christian moral & pastoral theology; Christian Theology - Ethics; Ethics & Moral Philosophy; Philosophy; Religion; Religion - Theology; Christianity; Christianity and justice; Human rights; Religious aspects
Description: "Wide-ranging and ambitious, Justice combines moral philosophy and Christian ethics to develop an important theory of rights and of justice as grounded in rights. Nicholas Wolterstorff discusses what it is to have a right, and he locates rights in the respect due the worth of the rights-holder. After contending that socially-conferred rights require the existence of natural rights, he argues that no secular account of natural human rights is successful; he offers instead a theistic account." "Connecting rights and wrongs to God's relationship with humankind, Justice not only offers a rich and compelling philosophical account of justice, but makes an important contribution to overcoming the present-day divide between religious discourse and human rights."--book jacket.