Hope for a Global Ethic

by Brian Lepard

Overview

In a groundbreaking book that calls on the world's religions to look at what they have in common, author and scholar Brian Lepard offers hope to a world community that has become dangerously fractionalized by economic, social, religious, and political differences. In Hope for a Global Ethic Lepard cogently argues that different societies have much more in common than they might otherwise think, beginning with a profound historic and lasting belief in religion, and that our fearful and often suspicious view of other people may be overcome by exploring what is shared in these religions. Hope for a Global Ethic moves significantly beyond ideology to discuss the values that all people have shared through the faiths of the world. It is these values that offer hope in our fearful, disordered, and terrorized world.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781931847209
Publisher:	Baha'i Publishing Trust, U.S.
Publication date:	10/28/2005
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	231
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Brian D. Lepard is a Professor of Law at the University of Nebraska and a specialist in international human rights. A graduate of Princeton University and the Yale Law School, he is the author of the internationally acclaimed Rethinking Humanitarian Intervention: A Fresh Legal Approach Based on Fundamental Ethical Principles in International Law and World Religions. He has also served at the United Nations Office of the Baha'i Community in New York. He and his family live in Lincoln, Nebraska.