Introduction -- The secret history of human dignity -- The human person and the reformulation of conservatism -- The first historian of human rights -- From communist to Muslim : religious freedom and Christian legacies -- Epilogue
Summary
In Christian Human Rights, Samuel Moyn asserts that the rise of human rights after World War II was prefigured and inspired by a defense of the dignity of the human person that first arose in Christian churches and religious thought in the years just prior to the outbreak of the war
