For All Peoples and All Nations: The Ecumenical Church and Human Rights: Advancing Human Rights (Paperback)

John S. Nurser is a fellow of the Human Rights Center at the University of Essex and Canon Emeritus of Lincoln Cathedral in the Church of England. He was the founding director of the ecumenical group Christianity and the Future of Europe (CAFE).

Foreword David Little PrefaceAcknowledgmentsArchives and Abbreviations Introduction: Revisiting a Myth PART ONE 1. The Idea: To Universalize "Christendom" 2. The Man: Fred Nolde PART TWO 3. To Write a Just and Durable Peace 4. Mobilizing Christian Forces 5. The Joint Committee on Religious Liberty 6. Preparing for San Francisco 7. The Charter of the United Nations Organization 8. An Ecumenical Instrument 9. Finding a Text 10. Declaring Human Rights 11. Conclusion: Faith and Human Rights Need Each Other APPENDIXES A Extracts from the Report of the WCC-in-Formation Conference "The Churches and the International Crisis" B Extracts from A Message from the National Study Conference on the Churches and a Just and Durable Peace C Extract from the Minutes of the First Full Meeting of the Joint Committee on Religious Liberty D The "Six Pillars of Peace" E Statement on Religious Liberty F Statement on Religious Liberty, Memorandum No. 2 G Extracts from the Report of Commission II, "The Peace Strategy of the Churches" H Letter on Human Rights in the Charter of the United Nations I Extracts from Concluding Remarks of J.H. Oldham and John Foster Dulles at the Final Session of the Girton College Conference J Letter from O. Frederick Nolde to Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt K Extract from the Report of the Drafting Committee to the Commission on Human Rights L Extracts from the Declaration on Religious Liberty M Extracts from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights BibliographyIndex

" For All Peoples and All Nations succeeds admirably in its main objective to fill a gap in the historical record about the important role of the ecumenical movement in advancing the UN, shaping its Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and authoring its protection of religious liberty. Given the current dominance of conservative religious influence within American politics, in interpreting international affairs, and in perceptions of the United Nations, Nurser reminds us of a time when progressive Christianity's leadership made a global impact and helped give the United Nations its 'soul' in human rights." -- Peace & Change: A Journal of Peace Research "John Nurser has put us in an incalculable debt with this book, which is a straightforward but detailed history of how in the post-1945 world human rights actually came to be enshrined both in the structure of the United Nations and in the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights." -- Gospel and Our Culture Newsletter