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Acknowledgements List of contributors The first word: to be human is to be free Desmond M. Tutu Introduction John Witte, Jr 1. The Judaic foundations of rights David Novak 2. Ius in Roman law Charles Donahue 3. Human rights and early Christianity David Aune 4. Human rights in the canon law R. H. Helmholz 5. The modern Catholic church and human rights: the impact of the second Vatican Council J. Bryan Hehir 6. Rights and liberties in early modern Protestantism: the example of Calvinism John Witte, Jr 7. Modern Protestant developments in human rights Nicholas P. Wolterstorff 8. The issue of human rights in Byzantium and the Orthodox Christian tradition John A. McGuckin 9. The human rights system T. Jeremy Gunn 10. The image of God: rights, reason, and order Jeremy Waldron 11. Religion and equality Kent Greenawalt 12. Proselytism and human rights Silvio Ferrari 13. Religious liberty, church autonomy, and the structure of freedom Richard W. Garnett 14. Christianity and the rights of children: an integrative view Don Browning 15. Christianity and the rights of women M. Christian Green 16. Christianity, human rights, and a theology that touches the ground Robert A. Seiple 17. A right to clean water John Copeland Nagle The final word: can Christianity contribute to a global civil religion? Robert N. Bellah.
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