Introduction

A Moral Language for Our Time? Human Rights and Christianity in Historical Perspective

“…As they put it, 'human rights can mean different things to different people, and this is precisely what ensures both their popularity and their political indeterminacy'. 53 A broader purpose in writing the book also appears to be to respond to contemporary critics of human rights in the Global South, for whom rights represent a Western, and often problematically secular, imposition. By highlighting the human rights leadership of Liberia and Jamaica, Jensen tries to rescue human rights from accusations of neo-imperialism under the guise of universalism.…”