Christian Human Rights

by Samuel Moyn

Book Overview

In Christian Human Rights, Samuel Moyn asserts that the rise of human rights after World War II was prefigured and inspired by a defense of the dignity of the human person that first arose in Christian churches and religious thought in the years just prior to the outbreak of the war. The Roman Catholic Church and transatlantic Protestant circles dominated the public discussion of the new principles in what became the last European golden...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081224818X
• ISBN13: 9780812248180
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.6" x 8.6"