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Can Human Rights Survive Secularization?RI

Dr. Nicholas Wolterstorff, a distinguished philosopher known for doing creative work on topics of theological interest, spoke at the Reformed Institute Convocation on January 26. The text of his address is provided here.

"I want to talk with you today about this distinctive part of our moral culture, the idea of human rights.  The focus of my talk is going to be on the inter-relationships and interactions between Christianity and human rights.  What do human rights and Christianity have to do with each other?  What have they had to do with each other in the past?"
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Francis James Grimke:  Prophet on a Tightrope

RIDr. Henry J. Ferry, former Associate Dean for AcademicAffairs and Associate Professor of Church History, Howard University School of Divinity and a member of the Reformed Institute's Company of Teachers, gave the following presentation at a Reformed Institute "Occasional Event" on February 9 at the Fifteenth Street Presbyterian Church.

"Americans in 1850 suffered from pervasive feelings of ambivalence, ambiguity and antagonism. For over two decades animosity had simmered over the issue of slavery and competing theories of states’ rights and federalism. The clash of Cavalier and Yankee life-styles reinforced sectional biases and cultivated a growing sense of mistrust between regions and their citizens."
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Responses and Reply to 2008 Convocation

Ms. Kathryn E. Godfrey
The Rev. Dr. Roy W Howard
Mr. John C. Sawyer
Dr. Gregory Stanton
Reply by Dr. Nicholas Wolterstorff

2008 Convocation Photos

Occasional Event (November 2007)

Dr. John de Gruchy 

January 2007 Convocation

Text from 2007 Convocation Speaker Dr. Max L. Stackhouse

Responses and Reply to 2007 Convocation

Mr. Peter Whitney
Dr. D. Jeffrey Lenn
Dr. R. Bruce Douglass
Reply by Dr. Stackhouse

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