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- Title
Human Rights, Dignity and Freedom: An Orthodox Perspective.
- Authors
Slavcheva, Kameliya
- Abstract
When as Christians we engage with human rights, we can give a new meaning to the basis of this concept. So it is that we must return to these questions: What is a human being? What is their nature? What is their purpose and meaning on earth? In this paper these questions are engaged with based on a revised characterisation of Orthodox anthropology. The purpose is to ascertain what Christian convictions are present in the foundations of human rights and how human rights are influenced and changed by these beliefs. Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states: 'All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.' This paper argues that this is consistent with Orthodox anthropology, where every human being is made in God's image and likeness, and that humankind has been created in God's image and likeness as a conscious, mindful, free and moral personality.
- Subjects
HUMAN rights &; Christianity; CHRISTIAN anthropology; ORTHODOX Christianity; DIGNITY; LIBERTY &; Christianity; IMAGE of God; RELIGION
- Publication
Baptistic Theologies, 2011, Vol 3, Issue 2, p115
- ISSN
1803-618X
- Publication type
Article