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Wolterstorff, Nicholas.

Justice : rights and wrongs / Nicholas Wolterstorff. - Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2008. - xiv, 400 p. ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Part One: The Archeology of Rights -- Two Conceptions of Justice -- A Contest of Narratives -- Justice in the Old Testament/Hebrew Bible -- On De-Justicizing the New Testament -- Justice in the New Testament Gospels -- Part Two: Fusion of Narrative with Theory: The Goods to Which We Have Rights -- Locating That to Which We Have Rights -- Why Eudaimonism Will Not Work as a Framework for a Theory of Rights -- Augustine's Break with Eudaemonism -- The Incursion of the Moral Vision of Scripture into Late Antiquity -- Characterizing the Life-Goods Constitutive of Flourishing -- Part Three: Theory: Having a Right to a Good -- Accounting for Rights -- Rights Not Grounded in Duties -- The Nature and Grounding of Natural Human Rights -- Is a Secular Grounding of Human Rights Possible? -- A Theological Grounding of Human Rights -- Beyond the Rights of Persons and Human Beings -- Epilogue Concluding Reflections.

ISBN: 9780691129679 0691129673

LCCN: 2007019574

Nat. Bib. No.: GBA7A1760 bnb

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 014469580 Uk

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Christianity and justice.
Human rights--Religious aspects--Christianity.

LC Class. No.: BR115.J8 / W65 2008

Dewey Class. No.: 241/.622