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Notes: Chapter 2 - Evangelicals 1 Foster R. McCurley and John H. Reumann, "Human Rights in the Law and Romans (Series A)," in Human Rights: Rhetoric or Reality, ed. George W. Forell and William H. Lazareth (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, Justice Books, 1978).2 Ibid.3 Ibid., 18.4 Jacques Ellul, The Theological Foundation of Law, trans. Marguerite Wieser (London: SCM Press, 1960), 9.5 Ibid., 35.6 Ibid.7 Ibid., 42.8 Ibid., 48-49.9 Ibid., 49.10 Ibid., 53.11 Ibid., 55.12 Ibid., 56-57.13 Ibid.14 Ibid., 135.15 Ibid., 137.16 John A. Whitehead, The Second American Revolution (Elgin, Ill.: David C. Cook, 1982), 116.17 Marc Lienhard, "Protestantism and Human Rights," in Human Rights Teaching 2, no. 1 (Paris: UNESCO, 1981), 31.18 John Warwick Montgomery, Human Rights and Human Dignity (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan, 1986), 23.19 Ibid., 78.20 Ch. Perelman, "Can the Rights of Man Be Founded?" in The Philosophy of Human Rights, ed. Alan Rosenbaum (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1980), 47.21 John Warwick Montgomery, Human Rights and Human Dignity, 90. Ethicist G. E. Moore coined the phrase "the naturalistic fallacy," in Principia Ethica (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1903), chap. i.22 Alan R. White, Rights (Oxford: Clarendon, 1984), 172-73.23 John Warwick Montgomery, Human Rights and Human Dignity, 106.24 Montgomery argues that the New Testament is competent evidence as a historical document because it meets the historian's requirements of transmissional reliability, internal reliability, and external reliability, as well as the ancient documents rule that texts "be fair on their face" (show no internal evidence of tampering) and have been maintained in reasonable custody (their preservation has been consistent with their content). Moreover, he argues that the testimony of the witnesses within the New Testament is sufficiently credible evidence to withstand even the hearsay objection.25 Ibid., 160.26 Herbert Chanan Brichto, "The Hebrew Bible on Human Rights," in Essays on Human Rights: Contemporary Rights and Jewish Perspectives, ed. David Sidorsky (Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society of America, 1979), 229-30. Quoted in Montgomery, Human Rights and Human Dignity, 169.27 John Warwick Montgomery, Human Rights and Human Dignity, 173.28 Ibid., 175.29 Jerome Shestack, "The Jurisprudence of Human Rights," in Theodor Meron, Human Rights in International Law: Legal and Policy Issues, ed. Meron (New York: Oxford University Press, 1984), 76, note 24. Quoted in Montgomery, Human Rights and Human Dignity, 179.30 Roland de Pury, Evangile et Droits de l'Homme (Geneva: Labor et Fides, 1981), 266. He is paraphrasing Matthew 25:31-46. Quoted in Montgomery, Human Rights and Human Dignity, 182.31 Roland de Pury, Evangile et Droits de l'Homme, 261. Quoted in Montgomery, Human Rights and Human Dignity, 215.32 René Coste, L'Eglise et les Droits de l'Homme, 79. Quoted in Montgomery, Human Rights and Human Dignity, 215.33 Human Rights and the Salvation Army (London: The Campfield Press, 1968), 5.34 Ibid., 11.35 In The First Church of Christ Scientist, and Miscellany, 222, quoted in "The Freedom in Choosing What is Right," Christian Science Sentinel 89, no. 27 (6 July 1987):30.36 George Colvin, "Social Conscience at the General Conference," Adventist Currents (September 1986):36.37 In Christian Legal Society Quarterly 5, no. 3 (1984).38 Carl F. H. Henry, "Religious Freedom: Cornerstone of Human Rights," Christian Legal Society Quarterly 5, no. 3 (1984):7.39 Ibid., 8, 9.40 Lowell W. Livezey, "US Religious Organizations and the International Human Rights Movement," Human Rights Quarterly 11, no. 1 (February 1989):33.41 National Association of Evangelicals Resolution B, "Human Rights" (1956). Quoted in Livezey, "US Religious Organizations and the International Human Rights Movement," Human Rights Quarterly 11, no. 1 (February 1989):34.42 Carl F. H. Henry, "The Judeo-Christian Heritage and Human Rights," in Religious Beliefs, Human Rights, and the Moral Foundation of Western Democracy, ed. Carl H. Esbeck (Columbia: University of Missouri, 1986), 30.43 Ibid., 38.44 Edward Norman, Christianity and the World Order (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1979), 32-33.45 Ibid., 32. He is quoting from Gaudium et Spes: Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the World Today (London: Catholic Truth Society, 1966), 41; and Report of Section V of the Fifth Assembly (Nairobi, 1971) on "Structures of Injustice and Struggles for Liberation--Human Rights." In Religious Freedom: Main Statements by the World Council of Churches, 73.46 Ibid., 31.47 Ibid., 44.48 Ibid., 83.49 Max L. Stackhouse, "Piety, Polity, and Policy," in Religious Beliefs, Human Rights, and the Moral Foundation of Western Democracy, 21. In a note he refers to Robert Bellah et al., Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life, (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984).50 Ibid., 22.51 Ibid.52 Ibid., 23.53 Ibid., 6.54 Max L. Stackhouse, Creeds, Society, and Human Rights: A Study in Three Cultures (Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1984), 1.55 Ibid. 56 Ibid., 2. 57 Ibid. 58 Ibid., 23 and 277. 59 Mark Juergensmeyer, Terror in the Mind of God: The Global Rise of Religious Violence (Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press, 2000), 23. Quoting from Bray, A Time to Kill: A Study Concerning the Use of Force and Abortion (Portland, OR: Advocates for Life, 994). 60 Ibid., 27, quoting "Manifesto for the Christian Church," Crosswinds, in Chip Berlet, John Salvi, Abortion Clinic Violence, and Catholic Right Conspiracism (Somerville, MA: Political Research Associates, 1996), 8. 61 Ibid., quoting Gary North, Backward, Christian Soldiers? An Action Manual for Christian Reconstruction (Tyler, TX: Institute for Christian Economics, 1984), 267. 62 Jeurgensmerer, Terror in the Mind of God, 31. 63 Billy Wright, who has been convicted for "Loyalist" (Ulster) terrorist attacks, told a BBC reporter that Rev. Paisley was one of his heroes. Wright also claims Ulster Protestants "have the right to fight, to defend and to die for what we believe is Truth." Juergensmeyer, Terror in the Mind of God, 41, quoted from Martin Dillon, God and the Gun: The Church and Irish Terrorism (New York: Routledge, 1998), 64-65 and 73. 64 1 Corinthians 3:11. Quoted in Montgomery, Human Rights and Human Dignity, 218.
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