Christianity and Human Rights

The historic relationship between Christianity and human rights is an ambiguous one. For hundreds of years the Christian Church actively promoted religious intolerance and persecuted those who failed to accept its moral values and customs. Many of these values and practices are today rejected as con...

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Main Author: Villa-Vicencio, Charles 1942- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Cambridge Univ. Press 2000
In: Journal of law and religion
Year: 2000, Volume: 14, Issue: 2, Pages: 579-600
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520 |a The historic relationship between Christianity and human rights is an ambiguous one. For hundreds of years the Christian Church actively promoted religious intolerance and persecuted those who failed to accept its moral values and customs. Many of these values and practices are today rejected as contrary to a human rights culture and moral decency. Max Stackhouse argues that while "[t]he deep roots of human rights ideals are rooted nowhere else than in the biblical tradition," these values "remained a minority tradition (within the Church) for centuries." James Woods, in turn, argues that "religion and freedom have not been natural allies."The affirmation of human rights emerged painfully and belatedly in the Christian Church. The "deep biblical roots of human rights ideals" have, however, periodically been acknowledged and retrieved throughout the history of the church in an attempt to correct wrongs, repudiate theological support for abuses, and to pursue a more humane society. The history of the emergence of human rights within the Western Christian tradition, recognises that religions develop in interaction with other social and cultural forces in society. I argue in what follows that the relationship between Christianity and the human rights tradition can only enrich society to the extent that the relationship is sustained by mutual critique and correction. 
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