Protestantism, Early Baptists and the Emergence of Human Rights

The development of modern understandings of human rights is widely attributed to Enlightenment thinkers, but Christians had constructed similar arguments even earlier. This article traces that history with primary reference to three early Baptists whose worldviews were shaped by the intolerance they...

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Main Author: Poll, E. W. van der 1952- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Paternoster Periodicals 2023
In: Evangelical review of theology
Year: 2023, Volume: 47, Issue: 4, Pages: 357-372
RelBib Classification:KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history
KDD Protestant Church
KDG Free church
NBE Anthropology
SA Church law; state-church law
XA Law
Further subjects:B Baptists
B Christians
B Human Rights
B Toleration
B Protestantism
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Summary:The development of modern understandings of human rights is widely attributed to Enlightenment thinkers, but Christians had constructed similar arguments even earlier. This article traces that history with primary reference to three early Baptists whose worldviews were shaped by the intolerance they experienced.
ISSN:0144-8153
Contains:Enthalten in: Evangelical review of theology