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A POSSIBLE CHRISTIAN READING OF JOHN RAWLS’S A THEORY OF JUSTICE

Summary/Abstract: The author offers a possible Christian interpretation of John Rawls’s A Theory of Justice, the work through which one of the most important modern political thinkers, after decades-long dominance of positivism, brought back the normative-ontological view on politics to the historical scene. By doing this, the author aims to point to the Christian roots of Rawls’s concept of perfect procedural justice (which he calls ’uncorrupted justice’) through parallel analysis with the works of Bishop Nikolai Velimirovich related to defining the concepts of justice in Christianity and the role of God as the Lawmaker. The main thesis the author proves is that Rawls’s concept of the veil of ignorance, and justice understood as what is right rather than what is good, with the imperative of an individual accepting it regardless of the consequences it would have on them (knowing that they are doing what is right nevertheless), represents the essence of defining God as the Lawmaker in the way it is done by Bishop Nikolai Velimirovich.

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