Preface
1. Introduction: Dialogue with Contributors
Arvind Sharma
Part I. Christian Influences on Human Rights
2. Human Rights and Responsibilities: Christian Perspectives
Frances S. Adeney
3. The Sources of Human Rights Ideas: A Christian Perspective
Max L. Stackhouse
4. Theology, Tolerance, and Two Declarations of Human Rights: An Interrogative Comparison
Sumner B. Twiss
5. Religion and Human Rights: A Personal Testament
David Little
6. Inter-Religious Dialogue and Human Rights: Christian Contributions
Terry Muck
Part II. Christian Perspectives on Human Rights Issues
7. The End of Man: Human Rights, Christian Theology, and the Rights of Human Persons
Stephen G. Ray Jr.
8. Persons, Politics, and a Catholic Understanding of Human Rights
Jean Bethke Elshtain
9. Human Rights and Asian Values
Kam Weng Ng
10. Changing One’s Religion: A Supported Right?
Margaret O. Thomas
11. Human Rights and Nonviolence: Testament of a Christian Peace Activist
John Dear
12. Christian Views in Dialogue with the UDHRWR
Arvind Sharma and Frances S. Adeney
Appendix 1: UDHRWR: Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the World’s Religions, McGill University 1999 (Revised Edition, 2003)
Appendix 2: Christian Theological Sources for Human Rights in Relation to the UDHR and the UDHRWR
Contributors
Index