Human Rights

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“to set at liberty those who are oppressed,”

— Jesus · Luke 4:18

MED-HIGH · EVIDENCE GRADE

Every person made in God's image — the conviction at the root of dignity language, and the movements that argued from it.

Human dignity and rights
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In the world Jesus was born into, a child, a slave, or a foreign widow had no standing worth the name. He touched lepers, welcomed women as patrons and witnesses, and put a child in the middle of the room as the example. Within a generation his followers were doing the same on purpose — and the standard outlived them.

This field examines movements that drew on Christian moral arguments, while also documenting Christian participation in and defenses of slavery. Abolition had multiple intellectual, religious, political and economic causes; the Christian contribution matters without being the sole cause.

Its branches

Abolition of Slavery→Status of the Vulnerable→End of the Games→

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