Abstract
Abstract This chapter examines the foundations of modern human rights law as it is understood and applied under international treaties and other instruments largely composed since the World War II. It reflects on some of the Judeo-Christian thinking that may have informed and animated the drafters of those documents and on the political and diplomatic realities that have shaped their content and enforcement. It examines overtly Christian understandings of human rights law and the role of Christians as advocates of human rights law both for its own sake and in the pursuit of the ecumenical endeavor. Consideration is also given to Christians as the beneficiaries of human rights law and to the conflicts, real or apparent, between the Christian faith and certain of the more secular elements of human rights law in the twenty-first century.
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