Theology and the boundary discourse of human rights
By: Ethna Regan.
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781589016422
Subjects: Human rights -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church; Human rights -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: A dialectical boundary discourse : secular and religious; title: Are human rights historical?; title: Are human rights universal?; title: A dialectical boundary discourse of human flourishing; title: The charter of the united nations; title: The universal declaration of human rights; title: Human rights and the Catholic Church since the Second Vatican Council; title: Pope John Paul II and human rights; title: The direction of Pope Benedict XVI; title: A crisis of trust; title: Theological anthropology and human rights : Karl Rahner's concentration on the human; title: Theological engagement with human rights : four examples; title: Imago dei : indicative and imperative; title: Karl Rahner : a concentration on the human; title: Human capacity for God : supernatural existential; title: Human goodness : the anonymous Christian; title: Human freedom; title: Human experience and the experience of God; title: Human dignity; title: Human suffering; title: Human rights in time; title: Realism between memory and hope; title: Memory; title: The ethics of memory; title: Trials and truth commissions : just memory; title: Towards just memory : a Guatemalan case study; title: Theology towards just memory : the haunted tardiness of Johann Baptist Metz; title: The influence of Karl Rahner; title: Political theology; title: Memory : dangerous memory; title: Narrative : dangerous stories; title: Solidarity : dangerous responsibility; title: Auschwitz : an interruption that orients; title: Challenge : a future based on the memory of suffering; title: Silence and interruptive realism; title: Liberation theology and human rights : from interruptive realism to the centrality of La realidad; title: Liberation theology and human rights; title: The preferential option for the poor; title: Who are the poor?; title: The rights of the poor; title: A mysticism of human rights; title: From interruptive realism to the centrality of La realidad; title: The weight of reality : Ignacio Ellacuría; title: Rights-holders or beggars : responding to the post-liberal critique; title: Disdain for the secular : the refusal of a rival; title: A preference for a theological politics over political theology; title: Impatience with the provisional.