What Rights Get Wrong about Justice for Orphans: An Old Testament Challenge to a Modern Ideology

This article challenges Nicholas Wolterstorff’s rights-based reading of Old Testament orphans by arguing that the prophetic demand for their cause not only assumes a right-order ethos championed in the Torah, but in doing so exposes the shortcomings in how justice is defined for orphaned children wi...

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Main Author: Van De Wiele, Tarah (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Sage [2016]
In: Studies in Christian ethics
Year: 2016, Volume: 29, Issue: 1, Pages: 69-83
IxTheo Classification:HB Old Testament
KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history
NCC Social ethics
Further subjects:B Justice
B Nicholas Wolterstorff
B RELIGION & justice
B right order
B Orphans
B Bible. Old Testament
B Human Rights
B Deuteronomy
B Old Testament
B orphan
B Social Conditions
B Chesed
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