March 31, 2008 | Calvin College | Commons Lecture Hall| 7:00PM
Cosponsored by: Service-Learning Center, Social Work and Sociology Department, and Calvin Center for Christian Scholarship
Calvin College will host a symposium with two internationally-acclaimed scholars who have a very different story to tell about religion and human rights.
John Witte, Jr.
Robitscher Professor of Law and Director of the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University, will discuss the roots and origins of a modern account of human rights in early modern Calvinism.
Nicholas Wolterstorff
Noah Porter Professor of Philosophical Theology Emeritus at Yale, will dig back even further, arguing that modern intuitions about rights and justice are indebted to the Hebrew and Christian scriptures--and cannot be sustained by a wholly secular ethos.
Refreshments will be served.
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