Rights of love and the dynamics of social benevolence: interpreting Martin Luther’s thoughts on social rights

A constructive interpretation of Martin Luther’s teaching on social rights reveals that human rights are not the institutions or instruments of evil that some Christian viewpoints take them to be. On the contrary, natural rights are gifts of God, inscribed on humankind’s heart in the kingdom of cre...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Andries Raath
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of the Free State 2006-08-01
Series:Acta Academica
Online Access:http://196.255.246.28/index.php/aa/article/view/1086

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