When I was a child I read books /
Robinson, Marilynne.
When I was a child I read books / Marilynne Robinson. - 1st ed. - New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012. - xvi, 206 p. ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-206).
Freedom of thought -- Imagination and community -- Austerity as ideology -- Open thy hand wide : Moses and the origins of American liberalism -- When I was a child -- The fate of ideas : Moses -- Wondrous love -- The human spirit and the good society -- Who was Oberlin? -- Cosmology.
In this new collection of incisive essays, Robinson returns to the themes which have preoccupied her work: the role of faith in modern life, the inadequacy of fact, the contradictions inherent in human nature.
9780374298784 (alk. paper) 0374298785 (alk. paper) 9781250024053
2011041206
Theology--United States.
Calvinism--United States.
Political science--Philosophy.--United States
Philosophy, American.
United States--Civilization--Philosophy.
PS3568.O3125 / W47 2012
814/.54
When I was a child I read books / Marilynne Robinson. - 1st ed. - New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012. - xvi, 206 p. ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-206).
Freedom of thought -- Imagination and community -- Austerity as ideology -- Open thy hand wide : Moses and the origins of American liberalism -- When I was a child -- The fate of ideas : Moses -- Wondrous love -- The human spirit and the good society -- Who was Oberlin? -- Cosmology.
In this new collection of incisive essays, Robinson returns to the themes which have preoccupied her work: the role of faith in modern life, the inadequacy of fact, the contradictions inherent in human nature.
9780374298784 (alk. paper) 0374298785 (alk. paper) 9781250024053
2011041206
Theology--United States.
Calvinism--United States.
Political science--Philosophy.--United States
Philosophy, American.
United States--Civilization--Philosophy.
PS3568.O3125 / W47 2012
814/.54