Biblical Foundations of Human Rights and Liberties
While the Bible is no modern human rights textbook, it abounds with passages that have long inspired Christian writers in their rights reflections and actions. In this article, we set out several clusters of biblical texts that ground, enrich, and animate the Western rights tradition. More specifica...
| Subtitles: | Recht und Religion |
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| Authors: | ; |
| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Published: |
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
2023
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| In: |
Jahrbuch für biblische Theologie
Year: 2022, Volume: 37, Pages: 237-268 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Church law
/ Old Testament
/ New Testament
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| IxTheo Classification: | HA Bible SA Church law; state-church law |
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| Summary: | While the Bible is no modern human rights textbook, it abounds with passages that have long inspired Christian writers in their rights reflections and actions. In this article, we set out several clusters of biblical texts that ground, enrich, and animate the Western rights tradition. More specifically, we group these biblical texts into Old Testament and New Testament categories; we subdivide them into both general texts of legal and political theory, and specific examples of public, private, penal, and procedural rights; and we gesture anecdotally toward the use of these texts by later writers with no pretense of mapping a more comprehensive reception history. As we illustrate, the Bible, even plainly read, can be called a pillar if not foundation of the Western tradition of rights and liberties. |
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| ISSN: | 2567-9392 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Jahrbuch für biblische Theologie
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.13109/9783666500398.237 |