Can you reflect a bit on how you see the developments you chart against the history of American Christianity? Even…
Samuel Moyn
Samuel Moyn is Henry Luce Professor of Jurisprudence and Professor of History at Yale University, He is the author of Christian Human Rights (2015), The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History (2010), and Origins of the Other: Emmanuel Levinas between Revelation and Ethics (2005), among other works.
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The Protestant Reformation and human rights
November 8, 2017
When we think of the Christian origins of human rights, we might keep this in mind: What we regard as…
Christianity, contemporary legacies, and the critique of secularism
July 30, 2015
My last post took my response up to the twentieth century invention of “Christian human rights.” This one engages with crucial…
Truth and triviality: Christianity, natural law, and human rights
July 28, 2015
For every phenomenon there is an indefinite, if not infinite, number of both continuities and discontinuities with what came before.…
Christian human rights—An introduction
May 29, 2015
Christmas Day, 1942. The outcome of World War II was undecided, but the pope had something new to say. A…
Religious freedom between truth and tactic
March 27, 2012
In the last issue of First Things, a self-described coalition of “Catholics and Evangelicals together” defends religious freedom. The coalition…