Ethics of Human Rights

Esther D. Reed is Associate Professor of Theological Ethics, University of Exeter, and the author of The Future of Christian Social Ethics (2004), The Genesis of Ethics (2002), and Theological Reading of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit (1996).

• 1. The Question of Rights2. On the Relation between Divine Law and Human Law3. Revelation and Christ the Measure of ""Natural"" Rights4. Human Rights and a Tropological Reading of Genesis 9: 1-175. God's Command to ""Multiply"" and the Right to Reproduce6. Animal Rights and the Responsibilities of ""Dominion""7. War, Democracy, and the Retreat from Human Rights

Esther Reed brings together her reading of the Bible and her reading of the contemporary world to make the case that the Protestant churches should give their wholehearted support to the human rights movement. At the same time, she warns against the hi-jacking of the human rights agenda by the wealthy and the powerful. This is a powerfully argued, creative and persuasive book. --Nicholas Sagovsky, Canon Theologian of Westminster Abbey and Adjunct Professor of Theology and Public Life at Liverpool Hope University