Original Research
Human personhood and social benevolence – reformational
Koers - Bulletin for Christian Scholarship/Bulletin vir Christelike Wetenskap | Vol 72, No 2 | a198 |
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4102/koers.v72i2.198
| © 2007 A. Raath
| This work is licensed under CC Attribution 4.0
Submitted: 27 July 2007 | Published: 27 July 2007
Submitted: 27 July 2007 | Published: 27 July 2007
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A. Raath, Department of Constitutional Law & Philosophy of Law, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South AfricaFull Text:
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In spite of the academic interest in human rights in reformational- evangelical circles during the past 100 years, the existence, necessity and importance of such rights, in particular the right to human dignity, have not been provided with an underlying Scriptural foundation for the understanding and evaluation of these rights. In this article the reformational perspectives of Martin Luther are utilised and developed in order to establish a moral framework for the human right to dignity and for determining its meaning and purview as a foundational human, political and legal value.
Keywords
Dignity; Human Rights; Moral Worth; Virtue
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