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James W.C. Pennington’s Human Rights Campaign
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Abstract
This chapter demonstrates how Pennington’s works fused republican thought and Reformed theological ideas of God’s moral government and humanity’s divine origin and purpose into a comprehensive understanding of sacred human rights. These rights included the right to life, liberty, and security of person. Pennington leveraged this understanding of universal rights in the fight against slavery and segregation. Viewed through Pennington’s Reformed human rights lens, slavery and segregation were revealed as prime examples of sinful violations of the divine order. The concept of sacred human rights also served to legitimize radical abolitionism and the resistance against any human laws that infringed upon these rights.
Title: James W.C. Pennington’s Human Rights Campaign
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Abstract
This chapter demonstrates how Pennington’s works fused republican thought and Reformed theological ideas of God’s moral government and humanity’s divine origin and purpose into a comprehensive understanding of sacred human rights.
These rights included the right to life, liberty, and security of person.
Pennington leveraged this understanding of universal rights in the fight against slavery and segregation.
Viewed through Pennington’s Reformed human rights lens, slavery and segregation were revealed as prime examples of sinful violations of the divine order.
The concept of sacred human rights also served to legitimize radical abolitionism and the resistance against any human laws that infringed upon these rights.
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