Religious Liberty and Human Rights: Their Origin, Their Development in the Anglo-American Legal Tradition, and Why They Are Still Needed - Discussed: The Blessings of Liberty: Human Rights and Religious Freedom in the Western Legal Tradition. By John WitteJr . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. 316. $24.00 (digital). ISBN: 9781108429207.
John Witte, Jr.’s book The Blessings of Liberty contains an important message about the origins and continuing relevance of religious liberty. Based on careful historical analysis of the development of religious liberty in England and the US, Witte demonstrates the importance of Protestant thinking...
| Published in: | Journal of law and religion |
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
2023
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Journal of law and religion
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| Further subjects: | B
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B Roman Law B Human Rights B Religious Liberty B US constitutional law B Fundamental Rights B Enlightenment thought B European Convention on Human Rights B freedom of conscience B Court of Justice of the European Union B Protestant thought |
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| Summary: | John Witte, Jr.’s book The Blessings of Liberty contains an important message about the origins and continuing relevance of religious liberty. Based on careful historical analysis of the development of religious liberty in England and the US, Witte demonstrates the importance of Protestant thinking both to the right and to human rights more generally. In the process he refutes both Christian and post-Enlightenment sceptics. His discussion of contemporary US and European law shows how much the right is still needed today, despite the claims of contemporary scholars that freedom of religion and belief is a redundant right. |
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| ISSN: | 2163-3088 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of law and religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/jlr.2022.59 |