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

2011041206


Theology----United States
Philosophy---History


United States---Civilization---20th century

PS3568.O3125 / W47 2012

814.54 ROB