Sacramentum Mundi Online
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Subject: Religious Studies
Edited by: Karl Rahner with Cornelius Ernst and Kevin Smyth.
Advisor for the online edition: Karen Kilby, Durham University
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Sacramentum Mundi Online is the online edition of the famous six volume English reference work in Catholic Theology, edited (in 1968-1970) by Karl Rahner, one of the main Catholic theologians of the 20th century. Sacramentum Mundi: An Encyclopedia of Theology was originally published by Herder Verlag, and is now available online at Brill.
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Rights of Man
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Concept and historical background. The rights of man are understood as the universal, inviolable and inalienable rights which are due to him as a rational being endowed with free will. They are his “by nature”, since he is a
person. They safeguard the dignity of man against State and society, and were first expressly formulated in this sense in the “Virginia Bill of Rights”, 12 June 1776, and the American Declaration of Independence, 4 July 1776. By way of the “Déclaration des droits de l’homme et du citoyen” of the French National…
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