Contending for Justice - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Contending for Justice write by Walter Houston. This book was released on 2008-01-01. Contending for Justice available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A fully revised and updated analysis of the texts on social justice in the Old Testament; highlighting their importance in shaping a Christian theological approach to injustice.
Justice
Justice - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Justice write by Nicholas Wolterstorff. This book was released on 2010-05-02. Justice available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Wide-ranging and ambitious, Justice combines moral philosophy and Christian ethics to develop an important theory of rights and of justice as grounded in rights. Nicholas Wolterstorff discusses what it is to have a right, and he locates rights in the respect due the worth of the rights-holder. After contending that socially-conferred rights require the existence of natural rights, he argues that no secular account of natural human rights is successful; he offers instead a theistic account. Wolterstorff prefaces his systematic account of justice as grounded in rights with an exploration of the common claim that rights-talk is inherently individualistic and possessive. He demonstrates that the idea of natural rights originated neither in the Enlightenment nor in the individualistic philosophy of the late Middle Ages, but was already employed by the canon lawyers of the twelfth century. He traces our intuitions about rights and justice back even further, to Hebrew and Christian scriptures. After extensively discussing justice in the Old Testament and the New, he goes on to show why ancient Greek and Roman philosophy could not serve as a framework for a theory of rights. Connecting rights and wrongs to God's relationship with humankind, Justice not only offers a rich and compelling philosophical account of justice, but also makes an important contribution to overcoming the present-day divide between religious discourse and human rights.
Justice for the Poor?
Justice for the Poor? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Justice for the Poor? write by Walter J. Houston. This book was released on 2020-03-09. Justice for the Poor? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Can the Old Testament help us in keeping the excesses of capitalism in check? How can a book that goes on about “justice and righteousness,” but says “there will always be poor people in the land” and accepts slavery have anything to say to us about social justice? Did kings of Israel draft their subjects—and which subjects—for forced labor? What does it mean when the Psalms say God is coming to judge the world? Is charity justice?—or is justice more than charity? Does Genesis give us the right to use the earth and its creatures as we like? These are some of the questions that Walter Houston asks, and tries to answer, in this book of essays from his work over the last twenty-five years.
Operating in the Courts of Heaven
Operating in the Courts of Heaven - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Operating in the Courts of Heaven write by Robert Henderson. This book was released on 2016-02-23. Operating in the Courts of Heaven available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Why do some people pray in agreement with Gods will, heart and timing, yet the desired answers do not come? Why would God not respond when we pray from the earnestness of our hearts? What is the problem, or better yet, what is the solution? Robert Henderson believes the answer is found in where your prayer actually takes place. We must direct our prayer towards the Courts of Heaven and not only the battlefield. Robert shows that it is in the courtrooms of Heaven where our breakthroughs can be found. When you learn to operate there you will see your answers unlocked and released. This book will teach you the legal processes of Heaven and how to operate in its courts. When you get off the battlefield and into the courtroom you can grant God the legal clearance to fulfill His passion and answer your prayers.
Contending Orders
Contending Orders - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Contending Orders write by Geoffrey Swenson. This book was released on 2022. Contending Orders available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "examines how the rule of law is understood conceptually and pragmatically-both on its own terms and as part of post-conflict state-building efforts. It examines thinner, more process-orientated understandings of the rule of law as well as thicker, more substantive conceptualizations with additional political, social, and economic components. While both approaches are worthwhile, I argue that a minimalist conception of rule of law offers the most appropriate standard for assessing progress in judicial state-building after conflict"--
