Robinson, Marilynne. <br/><br/>
When I was a child I read books / 
Marilynne Robinson. 
 - 1st ed. 
 - New York :  Farrar, Straus and Giroux,  2012. 
 - xvi, 206 p. ;  22 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-206). 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780374298784 (alk. paper) 0374298785 (alk. paper) 9781250024053 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2011041206 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Theology--United States.<br/>Calvinism--United States.<br/>Political science--Philosophy.--United States<br/>Philosophy, American.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>United States--Civilization--Philosophy.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PS3568.O3125  / W47 2012 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>814/.54