Human Rights and the Image of God

Human Rights and the Image of God

(ProQuest: ... denotes non-US-ASCII text omitted.) The medieval background to human rights is very effectively explored by Roger Ruston in his Human Rights and the Image of God. Ruston begins from the traditional suspicion of the Catholic Church towards rights discourse, based on its supposed Enligh...

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Veröffentlicht in:Scottish journal of theology 2010, Vol.63 (4), p.488
Hauptverfasser: Newlands, G M, Ruston, Roger
Format: Review
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Christianity
Historical text analysis
Human rights
Natural law
Slavery
Society
Stress
Traditions
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Zusammenfassung:(ProQuest: ... denotes non-US-ASCII text omitted.) The medieval background to human rights is very effectively explored by Roger Ruston in his Human Rights and the Image of God. Ruston begins from the traditional suspicion of the Catholic Church towards rights discourse, based on its supposed Enlightenment origins and its stress on individualism and the subsequent transition to a Catholic paradigm of rights, notably in Vatican II's Dignitatis Humanae of 1965. Rights involve duties, coming for Christians from the commandment of Christ (p. 349) and involving human beings as created in the image of God.
ISSN:0036-9306
1475-3065
DOI:10.1017/S0036930608004353