Includes bibliographical references and indexes

Part One: The Archeology of Rights -- Two Conceptions of Justice -- A Contest of Narratives -- Justice in the Old Testament/Hebrew Bible -- On De-Justicizing the New Testament -- Justice in the New Testament Gospels -- Part Two: Fusion of Narrative with Theory: The Goods to Which We Have Rights -- Locating That to Which We Have Rights -- Why Eudaimonism Will Not Work as a Framework for a Theory of Rights -- Augustine's Break with Eudaemonism -- The Incursion of the Moral Vision of Scripture into Late Antiquity -- Characterizing the Life-Goods Constitutive of Flourishing -- Part Three: Theory: Having a Right to a Good -- Accounting for Rights -- Rights Not Grounded in Duties -- The Nature and Grounding of Natural Human Rights -- Is a Secular Grounding of Human Rights Possible? -- A Theological Grounding of Human Rights -- Beyond the Rights of Persons and Human Beings -- Epilogue Concluding Reflections

"Wide-ranging and ambitious, Justice combines moral philosophy and Christian ethics to develop an important theory of rights and of justice as grounded in rights. Nicholas Wolterstorff discusses what it is to have a right, and he locates rights in the respect due the worth of the rights-holder. After contending that socially-conferred rights require the existence of natural rights, he argues that no secular account of natural human rights is successful; he offers instead a theistic account." "Connecting rights and wrongs to God's relationship with humankind, Justice not only offers a rich and compelling philosophical account of justice, but makes an important contribution to overcoming the present-day divide between religious discourse and human rights."--Jacket

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