ABSTRACT
Christian assurance of God's faithfulness, in turn, is rooted in two prominent themes in biblical and reformed theology, namely promise and covenant, which Moltmann uses to provide a foundation for a Christian conception of human rights. This emphasis on promise and covenant in turn deepens Moltmann's conception of the relations within the Trinity, which then becomes for him a model for human community. For Moltmann, God's revelation is intimately bound up in God's promises and God's history. God's revelation is not simply a transcendent principle, which can either be known through the independent exercise of the intellect or discovered through the direct self-revelation of God. Moltmann's theology of human rights is rooted in God's claim upon human beings. The foundation of human rights that exists within the context of covenantal relationships has another dimension as well. For Moltmann, the doctrine of the Trinity is essential for an understanding of the way in which human social relationships are rightly ordered.
