I'll close my contribution to this symposium with some broad brush strokes by suggesting that Wolterstorff's project can be seen…
Whig Calvinism?
Justice: Rights and Wrongs
This forum hosts critical discussion of Nicholas Wolterstorff’s 2010 book Justice: Rights and Wrongs. The book blends moral philosophy and Christian ethics to reflect on the divide between human rights and religious discourses regarding justice.
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…
“Bob and weave”: A response to Wolterstorff
Nicholas Wolterstorff's calm, careful, humble response to my posts might make me look like an overly pugilistic polemicist. But I…
Must secular rights fail?
It does certainly seem, as Simone Chambers points out in "Do good philosophers make good citizens?", that Dr. Wolterstorff ultimately…
Look elsewhere for agonistic social ontology: A response to Smith
If it is indeed the case that "the social ontology of rights talk generally assumes that, at bottom, the kind…
We are all Christians now
At first glance, Justice is an internecine wrangle between theists (or better put, Christians). On the one side is Alasdair…
Wolterstorff’s Bible-as-“frame”
In short, I agree with Wolterstorff that, while there is no theory in this extremely diverse array of biblical texts,…