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Choosing our gods and demons: Chris...

Curle, Clinton Timothy.

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Choosing our gods and demons: Christianity, disenchantment and human rights discourse.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Choosing our gods and demons: Christianity, disenchantment and human rights discourse./
Author:	Curle, Clinton Timothy.
Description:	134 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Peter Swan.
Contained By:	Masters Abstracts International40-06.
Subject:	Law. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=MQ66814
ISBN:	0612668142

Choosing our gods and demons: Christianity, disenchantment and human rights discourse.
Curle, Clinton Timothy.

Choosing our gods and demons: Christianity, disenchantment and human rights discourse. - 134 p.

Adviser: Peter Swan.

Thesis (M.A.)--Carleton University (Canada), 2001.

Is there any compatibility between current human rights discourse and Christianity? The present thesis seeks to answer this question at a theoretical level as a necessary precondition to any practical rapprochement between the two universalizing moral frameworks. In order to answer this question the author proposes an interpretation of human rights discourse from the perspective of Max Weber's theory of disenchantment which understands the human rights movement as the West's ongoing attempt to create/discover meaning in the vacuum left by the disappearance of the shared Christian metaphysical framework. With this understanding of human rights, the thesis turns to the work of Ernst Troeltsch in order to establish the requirements for a synthesis of human rights culture and Christianity. These criteria are then used to analyze Max Stackhouse's suggestion that the human rights movement requires public theology as a validation necessary for the survival of human rights. The author concludes that Stackhouse's proposal is a satisfactory compromise, but that this compromise has a high price for both sides; human rights culture must relinquish the immanent orientation which is inherent in Modernity, and Christianity must “liberalize” by adapting its notion of authority when it engages the political sphere of pluralistic society. The author anticipates that the price is too high for both sides in relation to the perceived benefits of such a synthesis.

ISBN: 0612668142Subjects--Topical Terms:

600858
Law.

Choosing our gods and demons: Christianity, disenchantment and human rights discourse.
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