Debating International Human Rights: The "Middle Ground" for Religious Participants
Paul Brink Monday, 1 September 2003
While the assertion that religious believers have much to contribute to the world of international affairs is not new, the unique times in which we find ourselves lend particular urgency to the task of encouraging faith-based solutions to problems that secular modernity seems ill-equipped to address. Events of the past two years have further undermined the already shaky confidence on the part of Western moderns that they have successfully understood the world. And as modernity's vision turns cloudy, more space has opened for the articulation of different visions of how religions, philosophies, and worldviews understand and engage the world around them.
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