Lambeth Palace PR on Rowan Williams’ Lecture on Human Rights and Religious Faith

Posted by Kendall Harmon

The 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights has made a profound impact in fighting injustice and is "a landmark in the history of moral consciousness", says the Archbishop of Canterbury in a lecture on Human Rights and Religious Faith at the World Council of Churches Ecumenical Centre in Geneva.

However, Dr Williams also notes current tensions around the discourses of rights, faith and culture. He observes that there has been a more recent trend to develop Human Rights as a purely universal legal code around the entitlements claimed by individuals and in this lecture he offers an alternative approach that takes into account the cultural and the community aspects of human interaction - which is an integral part of religious belief....

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