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WASHINGTON D.C. — The American Society of Church History has awarded the Albert C. Outler Prize to Reverend Canon Dr. John Nurser for his book, For All Peoples and All Nations: The Ecumenical Church and Human Rights (Georgetown University Press, 2005). The award was announced this month at the American Society of Church History Annual Winter Meeting in Atlanta.

“We are extremely pleased that a book on human rights has received such prestigious recognition from the academic religious community,” said Richard Brown, director of Georgetown University Press. "And we are particularly honored to have John Nurser’s name associated with the Georgetown imprint."

The Albert C. Outler Prize is a highly coveted award given to the author of the best book published in the two previous calendar years in ecumenical church history. The research committee of the American Society of Church History evaluated numerous books concerned chiefly with problems of Christian unity and disunity (doctrinal, cultural, and institutional) and with interactions between Christianity and other religious movements before choosing For All Peoples and All Nations for the Outler Award.

For All Peoples and All Nations is part of the Advancing Human Rights book series at Georgetown University Press, and includes a foreword by renowned human rights scholar David Little. The book reveals a remarkable moment in history when heroic religious leaders and NGOs, in the face of cynicism and public ridicule, laid the groundwork for one of the world's most important international documents: the United Nations’ 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Today the Universal Declaration remains the touchstone for political legitimacy and the human rights regime.

“This book is indispensable for everyone who is involved in the dramatic and ever growing acceptance of internationally recognized human rights," said Robert F. Drinan, S.J., professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center.

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).

CONTACT: Kimberly Wilson, Publicist
(202) 687-9298, kaw46@georgetown.edu


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