RT Book
T1 The theology of liberalism: political philosophy and the justice of God
A1 Nelson, Eric 1977-
LA English
PP Cambridge, Massachusetts
PB The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
YR 2019
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/188535083X
AB Pelagian origins -- Representation and the fall -- "The bargain basis": Rawls, anti-Pelagianism, and moral arbitrariness -- Egalitarianism and theodicy -- Justice, equality, and institutions -- "God gave the world to Adam, and his posterity in common": appropriation and the Left-Libertarian challenge -- Conclusion: Back to representation
AB We think of modern liberalism as the novel product of a world reinvented on a secular basis after 1945. In The Theology of Liberalism, one of the country's most important political theorists argues that we could hardly be more wrong. Eric Nelson contends that the tradition of liberal political philosophy founded by John Rawls is, however unwittingly, the product of ancient theological debates about justice and evil. Once we understand this, he suggests, we can recognize the deep incoherence of various forms of liberal political philosophy that have emerged in Rawls's wake.--
OP 218
NO Includes bibliographical references and index
CN BR1615
SN 0-674-24294-7
SN 978-0-674-24294-4
K1 Liberalism : Religious aspects : Christianity
K1 Liberalism
K1 Religion And Politics
K1 Pelagianism
K1 PHILOSOPHY ; Political
K1 Liberalism ; Religious aspects ; Christianity