Human Rights & Human Wrongs: Major Issues for a New Century

by John R.W. Stott

Social and global issues are constantly being redefined in our rapidly changing world. According to John Stott, it is our responsibility to demonstrate Christs love through participation in social action. This book challenges believers to make a difference in todays world as they confront the key issues of our time, the nuclear threat environmental concerns economic inequality human rights moral decay A study guide is included at the end of the book. This book and its companion volume, Our Social and Sexual Revolution, were previously published in one volume as Decisive Issues Facing Christians Today (1990). Both books have been revised and updated.

192 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 1999

About the author

John R. W. Stott is known worldwide as a preacher, evangelist, and communicator of Scripture. For many years he served as rector of All Souls Church in London, where he carried out an effective urban pastoral ministry. A leader among evangelicals in Britain, the United States and around the world, Stott was a principal framer of the landmark Lausanne Covenant (1974). His many books, including Why I Am a Christian and The Cross of Christ, have sold millions of copies around the world and in dozens of languages. Whether in the West or in the Two-Thirds World, a hallmark of Stott's ministry has been expository preaching that addresses the hearts and minds of contemporary men and women. Stott was honored by Time magazine in 2005 as one of the "100 Most Influential People in the World."

Reviews

[MJ · Rating 3 out of 5]

I found this book difficult to read. Perhaps it was because it was a 1999 edition and the information seemed outdated for 2023. Very detailed arguments read more like a thesis paper than a book. Too many long passages quoted from other sources made the writing seem disjointed. 12 pages of footnotes is excessive for a 180 page book.

[Trice · Rating 5 out of 5]

I read this book the summer after finishing college, and though I haven't yet taken my turn in among the ranks who work directly for human rights, it was an encouragement at that time to read from a Christian perspective what I'd been studying in my very secular college (university for non-Americans) under a wonderful but enthusiastically humanist and secular human rights prof (though, to be fair, he did not ignore the influence of the Judeo-Christian ethical tradition on the human rights movement). As I'm returning to human rights studies I'm wishing I could turn these pages once again to read Stott's very well grounded take on some of the major issues for a suffering humanity and a tortured Earth today.