A Brief Inquiry into the Meaning of Sin and Faith : : With "On My Religion" / / John Rawls; Thomas Nagel.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Rawls, John,
• TeilnehmendeR: Nagel, Thomas,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2009]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction /; The Theological Ethics of the Young Rawls and Its Background /; A Brief Inquiry into the Meaning of Sin and Faith (1942) --; A Note on the Text --; Preface --; Chapter One. A General Prospectus --; Chapter Two. Vindication of the Natural Cosmos --; Chapter Three. The Extended Natural Cosmos --; Chapter Four. The Meaning of Sin --; Chapter Five. The Meaning of Faith --; Bibliography --; On My Religion (1997) --; General Index --; Index of Biblical Passages
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674054486; 9783110442205; 9783110459517; 9783110662566
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674054486
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: John Rawls; Thomas Nagel.

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. 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.