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For All Peoples and All Nations: The Ecumenical Church and Human Rights
Contributor(s): Nurser, John S. (Author)

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 ISBN: 1589010590     ISBN-13: 9781589010598
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
OUR PRICE: $31.45  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: January 2005
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Annotation: In this new century, born in hope but soon thereafter cloaked in terror, many see religion and politics as a volatile, if not deadly, mixture. John Nurser has given life to a history almost sadly forgotten, and introduces the reader to the brilliant and heroic people of many faiths who, out of the aftermath of World War II and in the face of cynicism, dismissive animosity, and even ridicule, forged one of the world's most important secular documents, the United Nations's "Universal Declaration of Human Rights."

As David Little says in the foreword to this remarkable chronicle, "Both because of the large gap it fills in the story of the founding of the United Nations and the events surrounding the adoption of human rights, and because of the wider message it conveys about religion and peacebuilding "For All People and All Nations is an immensely important contribution. We are all mightily in John Nurser's debt."

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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Religion | Ethics
- Religion | Religion, Politics & State
- Religion | Christian Theology - Ethics
Dewey: 261.709
LCCN: 2004022931
Age Level: 22-UP
Grade Level: 17-UP
Series: Advancing Human Rights (Paperback)
Physical Information: 0.53" H x 5.82" W x 8.56" L (0.72 lbs) 220 pages
Features: Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
 
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This is the remarkable story of the early human rights movement, and of the influence of Christianity and the Christian churches on envisioning a post-WWII framework for international justice that ultimately resulted in the passing of the 1948 U.N. Declaration of Human Rights. In sum: When Hitler and Stalin were on the prowl, several ecumenical church leaders in the U.S. and Europe saw that not only must they be stopped by the use of military force, but that a non-territorial and non-coercive interpretation of Christian concern for justice and the welfare of the neighbor could help shape a new global order after the war. These church leaders, led by Frederick Nolde and Searle Bates, translated the deep insights of the Christian tradition into terms that could be endorsed on inter-faith, cross-cultural, and international bases. These leaders supplied the intellectual firepower and the zeal for the cause that tirelessly prodded the heads of states and leaders of diplomatic corps to think about the formation of institutions that could most likely prevent the barbarism of Fascism and Communism from terrorizing the post-war future. Supported by the World Council of Churches, they drafted the basic designs behind the most important institutions of today's system of international law--including the 1948 U.N. Declaration of Human Rights. The rest, as they say, is history. Social action inspired by Christian convictions has a mixed record in the modern world. Here is a case in which progressive stalwarts in the church, by articulating enduring theological principles that recognize the human dignity of each and every human being, got it right.
 
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