A Brief Inquiry Into the Meaning of Sin and Faith: With “On My Religion”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. |
Contents
The Theological Ethics of the Young Rawls and Its Background | 24 |
A BRIEF INQUIRY INTO THE MEANING OF SIN AND FAITH | 103 |
A Note on the Text | 104 |
Preface | 107 |
A General Prospectus | 110 |
Vindication of the Natural Cosmos | 129 |
The Extended Natural Cosmos | 157 |
The Meaning of Sin | 179 |
The Meaning of Faith | 214 |
Bibliography | 253 |
ON MY RELIGION | 259 |
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