John Rawls's influential theory of justice and public reason has often been thought to exclude religion from politics, out of fear of its illiberal and destabil

Employs the political philosophy of John Rawls to address controversies involving politics and 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

This volume brings together ten of Paul Weithman's papers on John Rawls's liberalism and his defense of reasonable political faith.

To probe the underlying premises of a liberal political order, John Rawls felt obliged to use a philosophical method that abstracted from many of the details of