LEX RUSSICA HUMAN RIGHTS M.A. Krasnov* CHRISTIAN WORLDVIEW AND HUMAN RIGHTS Abstract. <...> The article offers arguments that are aimed at proving that the idea of human rights not only complies with the Christian teaching but is actually rooted into it. <...> Those who support the point think that «the natural law in its orthodox interpretation» stipulates no rights, only obligations to God. <...> Thus, they conclude that the natural law does not contain any inalienable human rights. <...> Contrariwise, the author of the article states with reference to the Holy Scripture and works of church fathers that the commandments of God are not obligations of a human being to God, but conditions that allow him or her to come up closer and closer to the image and likeness of God. <...> He is omnipotent, and a human being can give nothing to Him. <...> Commandments are necessary to people, as they, as a whole, present a formula of human dignity value. <...> At the same time the commandments point out the natural limits of man’s freedom. <...> Their central thought is that human rights are means to legitimate vice, that they are the creation of vicious secular world that are practically barring the way to salvation. <...> Thus, the Basic Teaching of 2008 says, «The weakness of the human rights institution (italics and other font markers in the article are made by the author. — М. <...> URL: http:// www.patriarchia.ru/ db/text/ 428616.html (date of access: 20.07.2008). 3 Chicherin B.N. Obshchee gosudarstvennoe pravo / pod red. i s predisloviem V.A. Tomsinova. <...> P. 16. © Krasnov M.A., 2014 * Krasnov Michail Alexandrovich — Doctor of legal sciences, chair of department for constitutional and municipal law of the National Research University «Higher School of Economics». [mkrasnov@hse.ru] 119017 Moscow, Malaya Ordynka Street 17, room 213. 1511 (August 2000) and The Rus(June 2008). the idea of human rights is not about «defending the freedom of choice», but about defending from «political freedom», that is from arbitrary rule, from viewing a human being as an instrument to achieve some political (public) purposes, no matter whether they are noble or vile (more than that, there are often interests of separate <...>