scholarly journals Fé cristã e Direitos Humanos: caminhos que convergem e nos conduzem ao encontro com o Criador e ao Bem-Viver | Christian faith and Human Rights: paths that converge and lead to the encounter with the Creator and to Good Living

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 122-135
Author(s):  
João Ferreira Santiago
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Christian Faith ◽  
Reciprocal Relation ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Will ◽  
Good Living ◽  
Present Text

Este artigo trata da relação próxima e recíproca entre religião e direitos humanos a partir da autocompreensão cristã enquanto ponte que liga e religa o ser humano a si mesmo; os seres humanos entre si; e toda a humanidade ao seu criador. Desse modo, opta-se por uma contribuição teológica para a reflexão acerca dos direitos humanos fundamentais que possam auxiliar a pessoa de fé a reconhecer nessa agenda pública algo que lhe é particular. A saber, em linguagem confessional, reconhecer direitos humanos como vontade de Deus. Com um ponto de partida antropológico, busca-se uma fidelidade à tradição profética judaico-cristã. Desse modo, o presente texto assume a virada hermenêutica da teologia ocorrida no século XX diante de novas demandas humanas e, consequentemente, de novos modos de ler e atualizar a sabedoria da fé no horizonte de uma sociedade do Bem-Viver. This article deals with the close and reciprocal relation between religion and human rights from the Christian self-comprehension while a bridge that connects and reconnects the human being to itself; the human beings with each other; and all mankind with its creator. Therefore, it opts for a theological contribution to a reflection about the fundamental human rights that can help people with faith to recognize in this public agenda. Namely, in confessional language, the work recognizes human rights as the will of God. With an anthropological starting point, it aims to be faithful to the Judeo-Christian prophetic tradition. In this way, the present text assumes the hermeneutical turn of theology that took place in the twentieth century in the face of new human demands and, consequently, of new ways of reading and updating the wisdom of faith in the horizon of a society of Good Living.

scholarly journals REFORMASI SYARI’AH DAN WACANA HAK ASASI MANUSIA (Studi Pemikiran Hukum Abdullah An-Na’m)

2015 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 27
Author(s):  
Jamhari Jamhari
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
International Law ◽  
Islamic Law ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
Radical Islam ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Face ◽  
Good Starting Point ◽  
Human Rights Standards

<p>Abstract: Abdullah An-Na'im is the figure of the modern<br />thinker; his work is a good starting point of radical Islam<br />modernist and fundamentalist position that both of them<br />dominate contemporary thinking in the Islamic world.<br />According to Shari'ah are no longer relevant and no longer<br />adequate for the needs of modern society, it has led to serious<br />problems when dealing with human rights standards. An-Na'im<br />transformed basic understandings of traditional Islamic law. In<br />terms of Shari'ah, An-Na'im advocated a new system of Islamic<br />law which is believed to provide a thorough foundation more in<br />line with Islamic life in the contemporary world. This article<br />will explore formulation in the face of political structures, social<br />order, criminal law, international law and human rights.</p><p><br />ملخص: عبد لله النعیم ھو الرقم المفكر المعاصر؛ عملھ ھو نقطة انطلاق جیدة ل<br />الحداثیة الإسلام المتطرفة و الموقف الأصولي أن كلا منھم تھیمن على التفكیر<br />المعاصر في العالم الإسلامي . وفقا ل أحكام الشریعة الإسلامیة لم تعد مناسبة والتي لم<br />تعد كافیة لتلبیة احتیاجات المجتمع الحدیث، وقد أدى ذلك إلى مشاكل خطیرة عند<br />التعامل مع معاییر حقوق الإنسان. النعیم تتحول التفاھمات الأساسیة للقانون الإسلامي<br />التقلیدي. من ناحیة الشریعة الإسلامیة، دعا النعیم نظام جدید للشریعة الإسلامیة التي<br />یعتقد أنھا توفر أساسا شاملا أكثر انسجاما مع الحیاة الإسلامیة في العالم المعاصر.<br />ھذه المادة سوف تستكشف صیاغة في مواجھة البنى السیاسیة والنظام الاجتماعي،<br />والقانون الجنائي والقانون الدولي و حقوق الإنسان.</p><p>Kata Kunci : Reformasi Syariah, Abdullah An-Na’im</p>

The Morality of Religious Belief

1985 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 551-557
Author(s):  
Clyde Nabe
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Religious Belief ◽  
William James ◽  
Ethics Of Belief ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
The Will ◽  
The Ethics Of Belief

Van Harvey's The Historian and the Believer appeared nearly a century after W. K. Clifford's ‘The ethics of belief’. Harvey is critical of the epistemological supports of religious belief in a way strikingly similar to Clifford's criticisms. But Clifford's view did not go uncriticized in the intervening period. William James for instance used Clifford's essay as a foil for his argument in ‘The will to believe’. Now here is Clifford's argument again offered in twentieth century garb in Harvey's book. That a view so similar to Clifford's can arise again a century later, and after strong criticism, suggests that there is some important integrity to that view, and that that view strikes a responsive chord in the ear of many contemporary human beings. This paper intends therefore to examine Clifford's and Harvey's works in order to uncover what makes their shared view attractive.

Planning in Modern Britain

2019 ◽  
pp. 79-102
Author(s):  
Brian Harrison
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
The State ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Modern Britain ◽  
Government Education ◽  
The Face ◽  
Post War ◽  
Liberal Moralism ◽  
Over Time

Human beings have always planned, but the meaning, methods, and purpose of planning have changed over time and with circumstance. Planning has been politicized ever more widely as the individual’s ‘personal’ planning has succumbed before, or been reinforced by, planning by the state at its local, national, and international levels. Secularization entails the utopia’s transfer from heaven to earth, and in this process nineteenth-century Chartist populism, liberal moralism, and conservative paternalism all played their part. In the twentieth century, both Labour and Conservative parties merged all three into a statist and interventionist programme accelerated by the interwar depression and by the post-war need to validate democracy in the face of the Soviet pretensions. The essay concludes by discussing the contrasting approaches to planning required in four areas of twentieth-century government: education, welfare, the economy, and the environment.

Sense and Simplicity in Legal and Human Rights Co-Operation: A Case Study of Indonesia

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 195-206
Author(s):  
Nicola COLBRAN
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Monitoring And Evaluation ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Significant Time ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
The Face ◽  
Political Realities

AbstractDevelopment co-operation in the legal and human rights sector is challenging. It is political, nuanced, and involves multiple, often competing, stakeholders. Adding to this, significant time is spent determining suitable fields for co-operation, designing comprehensive programmes, and establishing robust monitoring and evaluation frameworks. Donors often strive for “ownership” of programmes with tangible results that justify ongoing co-operation. Amid this added complexity, it is easy to forget that good programmes are often simple, well-founded ones that set realistic goals and timeframes. Sense and simplicity can be overlooked. This article draws on lessons learned from personal experiences in two legal and human rights co-operation programmes in Indonesia to discuss six points at the heart of this concept of sense and simplicity. The points are not exhaustive, and are not always easy to implement in the face of political realities. They are a starting point, and stress the need to get back to basics when planning, implementing, and monitoring such programmes.

scholarly journals Identity and dignity within the human rights discourse: An anthropological and praxis approach

2014 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel J. Louw
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Human Dignity ◽  
Imago Dei ◽  
Ethical Framework ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Rights Discourse ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Practical Theological ◽  
Human Rights Discourse

The theological discourse mostly focuses on the moral and ethical framework for human rights and human dignity. In order to give theological justification to the value and dignity of human beings, most theologians point to the imago Dei as theological starting point for the design of an anthropology on human dignity. Within the paradigmatic framework of democracy, human dignity and human rights have become interchangeable concepts. This article aimed to focus not on ethics but on aesthetics: man as homo aestheticus, as well as the praxis question regarding the quality of human dignity within the network of human relationships. It was argued that human dignity is more fundamental than human rights. Dignity as an anthropological construct should not reside in the first place in the imago Dei and its relationship to Christology and incarnation theology. Human dignity, human rights and human identity are embedded in the basic human quest for meaning (teleology). As such, human dignity should, in a practical theological approach to anthropology, be dealt with from the aesthetic perspective of charisma, thus the option for inhabitational theology. As an anthropological category, human dignity should be viewed from the perspective of pneumatology within the networking framework of a �spiritual humanism�. In this regard, the theology of the Dutch theologian A.A. van Ruler, and especially his seminal 1968 work Ik geloof, should be revisited by a pneumatic anthropology within the parameters of practical theology.

scholarly journals Puebla: The Start of a Path Towards a More Audacious and Prophetic Theology in Latin America

2020 ◽  
Vol 71 ◽  
Author(s):  
Víctor Martínez Morales, S. J.
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Human Condition ◽  
Christian Faith ◽  
American People ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
New Approaches ◽  
The Face ◽  
American Method ◽  
The Church

40 years ago, the Latin American bishops convened in Puebla to reflect upon and point towards new pastoral horizons and theological construction. This article conveys the dynamism, strength, and vigor of the message emanating from that meeting. Puebla gave clues of a new theology that, adhering to the Latin American method, can respond to the problems that question us with unprecedented vigor and invite us to envision new routes, fields of new approaches, and ways yet unpaved. The message arising from Puebla continues to be current. It opens up hope of new theological construction seeking to give a new dimension to its task, understand God’s action in history differently, as well as the human condition and its relation to nature. We live in a plural context, broad and open to the construction of theologies able to offer new interpretations of God’s revelation and action, a propitious moment to rethink theological efforts, regarding the challenges presented by Puebla. In this horizon, theological work should be understood from the experience of faith and fundamental openness of the being to God’s creative and salvific action, in the gratuity of filiation in the Son and not as a mere intellective obligation of the Christian faith. Puebla presents, not only for the Latin American people, but for the church in general, a reflection in which we are constantly reminded that human beings can transform situations of injustice into opportunities for liberation, forgiveness and mercy. It is up to every Christian to undertake a path of trustful commitment, marked by a spirit of solidarity and responsibility towards his or her neighbour. In this way one can make known the face of God of whom Puebla speaks and who cries out for justice.

scholarly journals Beyond belief : the crisis of faith in A.S. Byatt's fiction

2012 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
pp. 81
Author(s):  
Jennifer Anne Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
First Century ◽  
Fictional Narratives ◽  
Natural Development ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Crisis Of Faith ◽  
The World ◽  
The Face ◽  
Norse Myth

A. S. Byatt’s Ragnarök (2011), a retelling of the Norse myth of the downfall of the gods and the end of the world, would seem to be a departure from her fictional narratives set in the nineteenth or twentieth century. However, this book is a natural development from her earlier novels that explored the Victorian crisis of faith resulting from the loss of religious certainty in the face of scientific discoveries. The author’s writing over the last twenty years has become increasingly involved with science, and she has long acknowledged her rejection of Christian beliefs. Byatt used the nineteenth century as a starting point for an exploration of twenty-first century concerns which have now resurfaced in the Norse myth of loss and destruction. This paper revisits "Possession" and "Angels and Insects" within the framework of her more recent writing, focusing on the themes of religion, spiritualism and science.

scholarly journals The Anthropocene, Earth system vulnerability and socio-ecological injustice in an age of human rights

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 62-85 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louis J. Kotzé
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Earth System ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
System Vulnerability ◽  
Alternative Approach ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Vulnerability Theory ◽  
The Many ◽  
Regulatory Challenges

Despite important victories, human rights have been unable to respond effectively to the many deeply intertwined socio-ecological injustices in the Anthropocene. In particular, human rights have failed to practically address, in a meaningful way, the plights of billions of oppressed human beings (and failed to address the vulnerability of non-human beings), while conceptually human rights are proving to be ill-suited for the epistemic demands of the Anthropocene. As a trope, the Anthropocene presents an opportunity to re-interrogate the role of human rights as key mechanisms in the state's regulatory mix to address socio-ecological injustices arising within the context of a vulnerable Earth system. This article reflects upon whether a re-interrogation could be accomplished by utilizing vulnerability theory, which is an alternative approach to ethical evaluation. As a heuristic, vulnerability has the potential to inform an ontological change of stance away from a human-centred, neoliberal, and impregnably Western understanding of human rights, towards an altogether more porous and contingent understanding of the vulnerability of the entire living order as a starting point from which to critique the epistemological closures and regulatory challenges confronting the human rights paradigm in the Anthropocene.

scholarly journals What Makes Us Human? The Lutheran Anthropological Link Between Wingren and Ricoeur

Open Theology ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 308-315 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bengt Kristensson Uggla
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Theological Anthropology ◽  
Philosophical Anthropology ◽  
The Other ◽  
Christian Faith ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Philosophical Position ◽  
The Reformation ◽  
Way Of Thinking

Abstract This paper explores the link between the extra nos in Gustaf Wingren’s theological anthropology and the homo capax in Paul Ricoeur’s philosophical anthropology, considered as two creative receptions of the tradition from Luther. I will argue that the reason that we find such synergies between these two thinkers, even though neither of them ever referred to the other, has to do with their common roots in, and their contributions to rethink, the tradition from the Reformation. Wingren takes his specific place in twentieth century theology as an angry critic of the dominant anti-liberal movements that took the distinctively Christian-in opposition to what we all share as human beings-as methodological startingpoint when understanding the Christian faith, and as an alternative he developed understanding of what it means to be human by starting “outside” oneself. Ricoeur’s philosophical position is developed as a creative alternative to both humanist and anti-humanist approaches, expressed as a wounded cogito capable of imagining “onself as another.” Taken together, these two thinkers provide us with a profound dialectical way of thinking what it means to be human by bringing together a de-centered self and a centered self as integral parts of a wider dialectics.

scholarly journals Contested Histories and Happiness: Leprosy literature in Japan

2013 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 99-118 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. M. Tanaka
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Japanese Government ◽  
Government Policies ◽  
Literary Genre ◽  
Human Rights Violations ◽  
Hansen's Disease ◽  
Complex Process ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
A Site

At the turn of the twentieth century, the Japanese government passed a series of laws targeting people diagnosed with Hansen’s Disease (leprosy). As a result, many patients were quarantined in public leprosaria, often for life. In order to cope with both the diagnosis of a heavily stigmatized illness and a lifetime in isolation, patients began to write. The works produced by sufferers became so popular that by the mid-1930s their writing was referred to as a distinct literary genre, “leprosy literature.” Studies of leprosy literature have focused on its depiction of human rights violations, struggles with the illness, and the difficulty of life in quarantine. However, patient writing in the 1930s also reveals the multiple ways in which patients found happiness within the institution. In this sense, leprosy literature is also a site of translation, revealing the negotiations of hospital life involving hospital and medical authorities, patients, leprosy relief groups, and government policies. Residents of the leprosaria represent happiness in multiple ways depending on their conception of their illness and life in the leprosaria. For some patients, the institution itself was a source of happiness in that their illness was stigmatized to the degree that life outside the hospital became unbearable. Other writers chafed at life in the hospital; the translation of happiness in their writing is a more complex process. This paper takes these diverse processes of translation as its starting point and examines the multiple ways in which patients conceived of health and happiness within the confines of hospital life. 

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