Nicholas Wolterstorff's Justice: Rights and Wrongs is a profoundly ambitious book. His normative aspiration is nothing less than "speaking up…
Justice and rights-talk in liberal democracies
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Scholars from varying disciplines engage in critical discussions of recent books. Additionally, scholars introduce their books with an original essay or, occasionally, an original essay reviews an important new book, connecting it to other threads of conversation in the academy and beyond.
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Not a foundation but a raft
Why should we conclude that God's love for human beings takes the form of attachment love as opposed, for instance,…
A Christian rehabilitation of rights discourse
Nicholas Wolterstorff's Justice: Rights and Wrongs is a unique---and uniquely readable---book. It skillfully constructs a case for the continuing force…
The paucity of secularism?
It seems to me that what worries Wolterstorff about "right order" theories of justice (i.e., communitarian accounts) is that they…
First things
Everywhere in Justice Wolterstorff's interest in theological and philosophical history collides with his desire for syllogism, or for causal necessity,…
Whose injustice? Which rights?
Wolterstorff (not unlike Jeff Stout) sometimes assumes that commitment to liberal democracy is the only way to care about justice;…
Do good philosophers make good citizens?
Perhaps one might argue that Justice: Rights and Wrongs is not simply a contribution to a conversation among philosophers. It…
Whig Calvinism?
I'll close my contribution to this symposium with some broad brush strokes by suggesting that Wolterstorff's project can be seen…
The fine texture: A response to Smith
I will respond here to the three postings on The Immanent Frame by James K. A. Smith concerning my Justice:…
Secular accounts: A response to Chambers
I want to re-emphasize the structure of my discussion about secular accounts of human rights. The project of trying to…