It has become a truism to say that Samuel Moyn’s work landed like “a grenade” amid common understandings of postwar…
The long shadow of Christian politics
human rights
An unwanted legacy: Christianity and the future of human rights
The conceptual history of human rights has received a great deal of scholarly attention over the last decade. Many of…
Christian human rights and the Jews
What did Christian human rights mean for Jews? This is not a question that Samuel Moyn considers in any great…
From personalism to liberalism?
In his paper “Personalism, Community and the Origins of Human Rights,” Samuel Moyn argues that a relatively understudied current of…
On the recognition of human rights
Samuel Moyn's essay, "Personalism, Community, and the Origins of Human Rights," makes an important contribution to our understanding of the…
All churches have heretics: On Catholicism, human rights, and the advantages of history for life
In the years since Samuel Moyn’s essay on Jacques Maritain, personalism, and human rights appeared, he has overseen a transformation…
Not Church history?
When Samuel Moyn talks about Church history, it is usually not meant as a compliment. He has shaken up the…
Christian human rights—An introduction
Christmas Day, 1942. The outcome of World War II was undecided, but the pope had something new to say. A…
Why corporations have religious freedom
The legal status of corporations as fictive persons is well-lampooned in the bumper sticker that reads, “I’ll believe corporations are…
Faith as an Option
Hans Joas’s Faith as an Option is primarily concerned with debunking two myths: first, the idea that modernization—advances in technology…