scholarly journals Kingdom, covenant, and human rights

2017 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Koos Vorster
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Kingdom Of God ◽  
Theoretical Argument ◽  
Historical Survey ◽  
Moral Agents ◽  
Christian Perspective ◽  
God's People

This research revisits the idea of a Christian perspective on human rights. Departing from a hermeneutics of trust, this article considers the concept of human rights from the perspective of revelation history. Revelation history departs from the consent of the parts of Scripture, irrespective of differences in dating, original languages, canonical differentiation, cultural, social and historical contexts. Scripture offers a theological unity consisting of various topics which are developed continuing and purposeful throughout the biblical revelation. Two of the major topics in Scripture as they are revealed by a revelation historical survey are the concepts kingdom of God and the covenant of God with God’s people. In this article these two concepts will be used as a foundation for a Christian theory of human rights both as legal human rights and moral human rights. The central theoretical argument of this investigation is that both the concepts kingdom and covenant are essentially about justice and relationships – the justice of the kingdom and the relation between God and humankind, the relation between people and the relation between humans and creation. These relations are the essence of the rights people have, vis-à-vis the authority of the day and other people. These rights, which deal with the orderly maintenance of relationships, can be formalised in legal human rights and should be nurtured and protected by the civil authorities. Christians and churches as moral agents in society have the calling to promote the idea of human rights in constitutional democracies.

scholarly journals Thy Kingdom Come in BAM as It Is in Heaven: Implications on Defining the Kingdom of God in BAM Businesses

Religions ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (8) ◽  
pp. 557
Author(s):  
Ben Ward
Keyword(s):  
Kingdom Of God ◽  
Bottom Line ◽  
Holistic Ministry ◽  
Cultural Innovation ◽  
Christian Perspective ◽  
God's People ◽  
Business As Mission ◽  
Business Practitioners ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Theological Understanding

Business as Mission (BAM) is a subcategory of Social Entrepreneurship as it seeks cultural innovation from a Christian perspective focusing specifically on economic uplift and religious direction. Most BAM authors describe the kingdom of God as the reign of God. In a theological review, I will show that defining kingdom simply as God’s rule is not a complete view of the kingdom. Rather, a more robust definition of the kingdom is preferred in biblical and theological studies that focuses on God’s people in God’s place under God’s rule. Therefore, the BAM community can adopt a refined definition that helps them move forward in the core vision of holistic ministry. This research provides a biblical and theological understanding for business practitioners to pursue a spiritual bottom line alongside local churches.

scholarly journals Corporations and Human Rights Obligations

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 255-275 ◽  
Author(s):  
Denis G ARNOLD
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Transnational Corporations ◽  
Moral Agents ◽  
The Third ◽  
Three Stages ◽  
Argument Proceeds ◽  
Policies And Practices

AbstractThe claim that corporations have human rights obligations remains contentious and can be fraught with confusion. This article synthesizes existing corporate human rights theory and responds to objections to the idea that transnational corporations (TNCs) have human rights obligations. The argument proceeds in three stages. The first section describes the different forms TNCs take and explains why TNCs are properly understood as moral agents responsible for their policies and practices. The second section reviews and explains different philosophical theories of corporate human rights obligations. The third section articulates and responds to objections to the idea that corporations have human rights obligations. The main conclusion of this article is that there are multiple, compelling and overlapping justifications of corporate human rights obligations.

Interventions and repression following civil conflict

2021 ◽  
pp. 002234332110108
Author(s):  
Naji Bsisu ◽  
Amanda Murdie
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Foreign Aid ◽  
Civil Conflict ◽  
Theoretical Argument ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Security Sector Reform ◽  
State Repression ◽  
Human Rights Abuses ◽  
Peacekeeping Missions ◽  
International Interventions

Civil conflicts inevitably have negative consequences with regards to respect for human rights within affected states. Unfortunately, the violation of human rights often does not end with the conflict. What factors explain variation in state repression in post-civil conflict societies? Can international interventions, both civilian and military, improve human rights in states with a history of conflict? Does the size of the intervention matter? We argue that international interventions, including peacekeeping missions and officially directed foreign aid, can reduce physical integrity abuses. This process occurs by simultaneously increasing protections for civilians while also raising the costs of repression to both government leaders and their agents. Human rights abuses will also decrease when there are legal remedies available to vulnerable populations which are bolstered by a strong judicial system. A robust civil society can also discourage human rights abuses by shedding light on these events and providing human rights education. In line with our theoretical argument, we focus on UN peacekeeping missions, especially those with human rights teams, and officially directed foreign aid for legal and security sector reform and NGOs. Using both a treatment effects approach and a continuous dose–response model, we find much support for the implications of our argument.

Arguments for Combinations’ and Coalitions’ Duties

Group Duties ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 27-59
Author(s):  
Stephanie Collins
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Moral Agents ◽  
Group Responsibility

This chapter examines six arguments in favour of the idea that combinations and coalitions are apt to bear duties. The first five arguments assert that combinations’ or coalitions’ duties are the best way to solve some problem: the problem of explaining individuals’ duties, of explaining intuitions about group responsibility, of capturing convictions, of distributing the duties correlative to human rights, or of avoiding overdemandingness. The sixth argument claims that some combinations or some coalitions are moral agents—and are, therefore, apt to bear duties by their very nature. Each of the six arguments is shown to be problematic. The result is a stalemate: we have no compelling arguments in favour of combinations’ and coalitions’ propensity to bear duties, yet we also have no arguments against that propensity.

Worship as Missional Practice

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 167-191
Author(s):  
Darren Cronshaw ◽  
Peter Downes
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Kingdom Of God ◽  
Missional Church ◽  
Corporate Worship ◽  
God's People ◽  
Community Continuity

The corporate worship gathering has been centrally important to Vineyard Churches, but the Emerging Missional Church (emc) movement has challenged them to reconsider how corporate worship interfaces with mission. A linked series of case studies of three Australian Vineyard churches identifies several functions of the Sunday worship gathering. Worship is a ‘centripetal embrace’ for God’s people; which brings focus, community, continuity and a climax to the week. But worship as missional practice is equally about centrifugal release and the need for encouragement, equipping, empowering, direction and missional impetus. These functions are consistent with James Smith’s appeal for worship that forms disciples whose desires are shaped towards the Kingdom of God and whose imaginations are captured with a vision for being actors in God’s story.

scholarly journals Corporate Moral Agency and the Responsibility to Respect Human Rights in the UN Guiding Principles: Do Corporations Have Moral Rights?

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia H WERHANE
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Moral Agency ◽  
Moral Rights ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Moral Agents ◽  
Business And Human Rights ◽  
Human Agent ◽  
Guiding Principles ◽  
The United Nations

AbstractIn 2011 the United Nations (UN) published the ‘Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights: Implementing the United Nations “Protect, Respect, and Remedy” Framework’ (Guiding Principles). The Guiding Principles specify that for-profit corporations have responsibilities to respect human rights. Do these responsibilities entail that corporations, too, have basic rights? The contention that corporations are moral persons is problematic because it confers moral status to an organization similar to that conferred to a human agent. I shall argue that corporations are not moral persons. But as collective bodies created, operated, and perpetuated by individual human moral agents, one can ascribe to corporations secondary moral agency as organizations. This ascription, I conclude, makes sense of the normative business responsibilities outlined in the Guiding Principles without committing one to the view that corporations are full moral persons.

scholarly journals A construção simbólica do “mártir da caminhada latino-americana”

2021 ◽  
Vol 81 (319) ◽  
pp. 397-423
Author(s):  
José Reinaldo Felipe Martins Filho ◽  
Daniel Carvalho da Silva
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Kingdom Of God ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Dead ◽  
Latin American Theology ◽  
Maximum Expression

O presente artigo visa identificar na Ata de martírio do padre João Bosco Penido Burnier, produzida pelo bispo Pedro Casaldáliga, os elementos simbólicos que configuram um assassinado como Mártir da Caminhada Latino-Americana. Diferentemente dos mártires por causa da fé, estes – chamados mártires da justiça, ou jesuânicos – são identificados a Jesus e morrem como ele, em defesa das causas d’Ele: a vida, a justiça, a liberdade, os direitos humanos e etc. Por meio da análise de registros literários e plásticos acerca do martírio na teologia latino-americana, especialmente naquela ligada à Prelazia de São Félix do Araguaia, confrontados com teorias acerca do simbólico, pudemos apontar algumas conclusões. A saber: os elementos simbólicos empregados na caracterização do mártir da caminhada por Casaldáliga na ata de martírio de Burnier parecem ser intencionais. Mas, quais são suas intenções? Entre outras possibilidades, pode-se responder: animar as lutas pelas quais muitos morreram, manter viva a memória dos mortos, transpor as lutas do campo material para o campo religioso e condensar coletivos em torno da memória de uma liderança assassinada. Do ponto de vista religioso, a doação da vida é a expressão máxima da configuração de uma vida a Jesus em anúncio do Reino de Deus e em denúncia do antirreino. Abstract: This article aims to identify in the minutes of martyrdom of Father João Bosco Penido Burnier, produced by Bishop Pedro Casaldáliga, the symbolic elements that make up a murderer as a Martyr of the Latin American Walk. Unlike martyrs because of faith, these – called martyrs of justice, or jesuanic – are identified with Jesus and die like him, in defense of His causes: life, justice, freedom, human rights and so on. Through the analysis of literary and plastic records about martyrdom in Latin American theology, especially that related to the Prelature of São Félix do Araguaia, confronted with theories about the symbolic, we were able to point out some conclusions. Namely: the symbolic elements used in the characterization of the martyr of the walk by Casaldáliga in the minutes of Burnier’s martyrdom seem to be intentional. But what are your intentions? Among other possibilities, it can be answered: animate the struggles for which many died, keep the memory of the dead alive, transpose the struggles from the material field to the religious field and condense collectives around the memory of a murdered leadership. From the religious point of view, the giving of life is the maximum expression of the configuration of a life to Jesus in announcing the Kingdom of God and in denouncing the anti-kingdom.

scholarly journals The linguistic characteristics of the language of human rights and its use in reality as the kingdom of God in the light of Speech Act Theory

2019 ◽  
Vol 75 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Cho
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Kingdom Of God ◽  
Speech Act Theory ◽  
Linguistic Features ◽  
Social Rules ◽  
Ordinary Life ◽  
Performative Language ◽  
Language Characteristics

Human rights, a language that keeps public order, is realised in ordinary life by language characteristics according to social rules. Despite this fact, research that considers the linguistic features of human rights relating to its use and effects in terms of the kingdom of God in the present world seems to have not been attempted or seldom attempted. Thus, this article proposes to examine the language of human rights by means of Speech Act Theory. The approach is predicated upon the language use as performative acts. The approach shows the language of human rights with performative language by seeking to uncover the operation and effects of language of rights in real-life situations. The thrust of this article implies how we can explain the semantics of human rights and execute them in ordinary life in terms of God’s kingdom.

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