Modernity: Moving Sacredness from Divine Text to Individual Rights | Yaser Birjas #MASCON2017

Postmodern worldviews intrinsically challenge the authority of scripture and create a bubble of sacredness around human rights ground in public reason. How do we achieve the balance of staying modern while cherishing the Divine text?

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