Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. PREFACE vii
4. INTRODUCTION 1
5. PART I. The Archeology of Rights
6. Chapter One. Two Conceptions of Justice 21
7. Chapter Two. A Contest of Narratives 44
8. Chapter Three. Justice in the Old Testament/Hebrew Bible 65
9. Chapter Four. On De-justicizing the New Testament 96
10. Chapter Five. Justice in the New Testament Gospels 109
11. PART II. Fusion of Narrative with Theory: The Goods to Which We Have Rights
12. CHAPTER SIX. Locating That to Which We Have Rights 135
13. CHAPTER SEVEN. Why Eudaimonism Cannot Serve as Framework for a Theory of Rights 149
14. CHAPTER EIGHT. Augustine’s Break with Eudaimonism 180
15. CHAPTER NINE. The Incursion of the Moral Vision of Scripture into Late Antiquity 207
16. CHAPTER TEN. Characterizing Life- and History-Goods 227
17. PART III. Theory: Having a Right to a Good
18. CHAPTER ELEVEN. Accounting for Rights 241
19. CHAPTER TWELVE. Rights Not Grounded in Duties 264
20. CHAPTER THIRTEEN. Rights Grounded in Respect for Worth 285
21. CHAPTER FOURTEEN. The Nature and Grounding of Natural Human Rights 311
22. CHAPTER FIFTEEN. Is a Secular Grounding of Human Rights Possible? 323
23. CHAPTER SIXTEEN. A Theistic Grounding of Human Rights 342
24. CHAPTER SEVENTEEN. Applications and Implications 362
25. EPILOGUE. Concluding Reflections 385
26. General Index 395
27. Index of Scriptural References 399