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100 1 $aRawls, John,$d1921-2002.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n78081060
245 12 $aA brief inquiry into the meaning of sin and faith :$bwith On my religion /$cJohn Rawls ; edited by Thomas Nagel ; with commentaries by Joshua Cohen and Thomas Nagel, and by Robert Merrihew Adams.
260 $aCambridge, Mass. :$bHarvard University Press,$c2009.
300 $a275 pages ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [253]-258) and indexes.
520 1 $a"John Rawls never published anything about his own religious beliefs, but after his death two texts were discovered which shed extraordinary light on the subject. A Brief Inquiry into the Meaning of Sin and Faith is Rawls's undergraduate senior thesis, submitted in December 1942, just before he entered the army. At that time Rawls was deeply religious; the thesis is a significant work of theological ethics, of interest both in itself and because of its relation to his mature writings. "On My Religion," a short statement drafted in 1997, describes the history of his religious beliefs and attitudes toward religion, including his abandonment of orthodoxy during World War II." "The present volume includes these two texts, together with an Introduction by Joshua Cohen and Thomas Nagel, which discusses their relation to Rawls s published work, and an essay by Robert Merrihew Adams, which places the thesis in its theological context." "The texts display the profound engagement with religion that forms the background of Rawls's later views on the importance of separating religion and politics. Moreover, the moral and social convictions that the thesis expresses in religious form are related in illuminating ways to the central ideas of Rawls's later writings. His notions of sin, faith, and community are simultaneously moral and theological, and prefigure the moral outlook found in Theory of Justice."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aPhilosophical theology.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85100848
650 0 $aPhilosophy and religion.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85100999
650 0 $aSin.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85122772
650 0 $aFaith.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85046928
600 10 $aRawls, John,$d1921-2002$xReligion.
700 1 $aRawls, John,$d1921-2002.$tOn my religion.
700 1 $aNagel, Thomas,$d1937-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50026557
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852 00 $bbar$hBT40$i.R39 2009