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Thanks to their invention of human rights, medieval canonists get the credit for completing the task Jesus and Paul left mankind: “converting the primordial Christian concern with ‘innerness’ into the language of law.” But it would be as fair to say that the language of universal human rights in canon law just repeated the “primordial” Christian concern while neither broadening it beyond male Christians nor recasting its content to include all of the modern values it now incorporates, from integrity of the body to women’s equality to social welfare. - bostonreview.net