Christ and Human Rights
Subtitle: the Transformative Engagement
Edition: First edition.
Series: Theology and Religion in Interdisciplinary Perspective Series
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2017
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9781315260396
Subjects: Human rights; Christianity
Description: "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."--Provided by publisher
Table of contents: title: Chapter 1 Introduction: The Centrality of Rights; title: chapter 2 Jesus Christ and the Hope of Rights; title: chapter 3 Rights, Cultures and Transcendence: Ambiguity and Tension; title: chapter 4 Human Rights, History and Christology; title: chapter 5 The Hermeneutics of Rights in the History of Interpretation; title: chapter 6 Christology in Human Rights Focus: Towards a Humane Christology; title: chapter 7 Christology in Relation to Global Human Rights Strategy; title: chapter 8 Rights Reconsidered: Building a Postfoundational Pathway; title: chapter 9 Christology for Human Rights; title: chapter 10 Making Rights Stick.