When we think of the Christian origins of human rights, we might keep this in mind: What we regard as…
John Witte, Jr.
John Witte, Jr. is Robert W. Woodruff University Professor at Emory University. He has published 225 articles and 27 books including The Reformation of Rights: Law, Religion, and Human Rights in Early Modern Calvinism (2007); Christianity and Human Rights: An Introduction (2010); and Religion and the American Constitutional Experiment, 3d ed. (2011).
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