AN APPROACH TO JOHN WITTE ON THE REFORMATION OF RIGHTS AND RELIGION
AN APPROACH TO JOHN WITTE ON THE REFORMATION OF RIGHTS AND RELIGION

Summary/Abstract: This article focuses on the insight of Professor John Witte Jr., (b. 1959) in relationto human rights and religion. Witte has a distinctive theological path with vastscholarly works in connection to ethics, law and human rights at the EmoryUniversity in Atlanta. Although the origin of human rights has been interpreteddifferently by many authors in the past. However, Witte's exposure to theemergence of modern human rights gives attention to its religious roots and theestablishment of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The concept ofreligious freedom and individual rights was paramount in Calvinism, while thePapacy also tried in the reformation of its Canon Law. The 1948 United NationsHuman Rights Charter came at a time when the project of human rights becameinevitable after the mass atrocities caused by World War II. This article will,therefore, give a unique understanding of the emergence of modern human rightsthrough a religious dialogue.

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