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  • 2 - The Alpine Climb between Paris and Rome

  • from Part I - General Reflections
  • Edited by Sarah Shortall, University of Notre Dame, Indiana, Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire
  • Book:
    Christianity and Human Rights Reconsidered
    Published online:
    26 September 2020
    Print publication:
    24 September 2020, pp 40-60

  • Summary

    This chapter examines Samuel Moyn and John Finnis’s heated exchange over Christian human rights. Their diverging methodologies and conclusions are rooted in different fundamental commitments, respectively, historicism and metaphysical realism. Furthermore, the debate implicitly acts out older, deeper tensions between anti-Catholic modernity and antimodern Catholicism. This longer trajectory reached a paradoxical climax after the Second Vatican Council when many Catholics turned toward the modern paradigm just as others were diagnosing its demise. Contemporary reflection on Christian human rights demonstrates how the sufficient reasons of history complicate predictable choices between secular and religious worldviews. One ongoing challenge, then, is to mediate such differences through mutual translation and dialogue.