Christ and Human Rights: The Transformative Engagement. By George Newlands
In an address delivered in St Peter's Square on the Feast of the Solemnity of the Mother of God, 2007 Pope Benedict XVI made human rights the centre of his appeal for world peace. Two weeks later, on the second Sunday after the Feast of the Epiphany, he returned to the theme when speaking about...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2007
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2007, Volume: 58, Issue: 2, Pages: 784-786 |
| Review of: | Christ and human rights (Aldershot [u.a.] : Ashgate, 2006) (Horne, Brian)
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| Summary: | In an address delivered in St Peter's Square on the Feast of the Solemnity of the Mother of God, 2007 Pope Benedict XVI made human rights the centre of his appeal for world peace. Two weeks later, on the second Sunday after the Feast of the Epiphany, he returned to the theme when speaking about the plight of refugees and migrants. It seems clear that he is determined to follow in the footsteps of his predecessor, Pope John Paul II, who declared in 1995 that the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was ‘one of the highest expressions of the conscience of our time’. These are only three, very public, instances of the increasing attention that is being given to the question of human rights in Christian thought today. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/flm106 |