Justice and Rights

Justice and Rights presents a global dialogue on the topic of Justice and Rights between Nicholas Wolterstorff and a wide range of scholars across disciplines, countries, and cultures. This is a unique and rich approach that broadens and enlivens the reader’s engagement with an essential topic of our time.

Janel Curry
President,
American Scientific Affiliation

This book captivates. It begins a rich conversation that takes off from Wolterstorff’s brilliant opening essay as eminent philosophers, theologians, and biblical scholars immediately join in. In sum, it is a tour de force, exciting and inspiring in every way. May these conversations long continue!

Matthew Levering
James N. Jr. and Mary D. Perry Chair of Theology,
Mundelein Seminary, Illinois, USA
Co-Editor, International Journal of Systematic Theology
Co-Editor, Nova et Vetera

With Nicholas Wolterstorff’s profound insights at its core, this hugely stimulating and wide-ranging book weaves a dialogue between philosophy, theology, and a range of university disciplines. I am struck on the one hand how widely the concept of justice applies, and on the other hand how much more work there is left on the table for Christian scholars to explore. Highly recommended!

Ard Louis
Professor of Theoretical Physics, University of Oxford, UK
Co-Leader, Developing a Christian Mind, Oxford, UK

If you seek inspiration about ways your own research relates to faith, or if you are searching for writings that will energize graduate students or early career scholars to integrate their faith and studies, then I enthusiastically recommend these creatively curated writings brought together in Justice and Rights, an all-too-rare academic volume crafted as an extended dialogue.

Lorna Smith
Professor of Chemistry and Tutorial Fellow at St. Hilda’s College,
University of Oxford, UK;
Co-Convenor, Christians in Academia, Oxford Pastorate

Justice and Rights takes the reader on a journey of discovery as eminent philosopher-theologian, Nicholas Wolterstorff, starts a conversation and yet finds his own mind changing and expanding as it proceeds. The different perspectives of the writers and the content all amply testify to the rich capacity of Christian faith to offer profound and healing perspectives on issues that go right to the heart of our life together across the world today.

The Rt. Revd. Dr. Graham Tomlin
Former Bishop of Kensington
Director, Centre for Cultural Witness, UK

This is the kind of robust and respectful interdisciplinary Christian scholarship that every scholar and student craves. The new Global Faculty Initiative, directed by Terry Halliday and Donald Hay, has created an essential network of Christian scholars from around the world, and has set the scholarly bar very high with this impressive inaugural volume of the Cross-Disciplinary Encounters with Theology series.

John Witte, Jr.
Robert W. Woodruff Professor of Law, McDonald Distinguished Professor,
Faculty Director, Center for the Study of Law and Religion,
Emory University, Georgia, USA

1. Contributors
2. Acknowledgments
3. Preface
4. Part I: Preview
5. Part II: Theology Brief
6. Part III: Disciplinary Exchanges
1. 1 Justice Debates
2. 2 Society and History
3. 3 Law and Society
4. 4 International and Global Justice
5. 5 Justice in Biological, Physical, and Medical Sciences
6. 6 Justice and the Academy
7. Part IV: Postscript
8. Subject Index
9. Scripture Index