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Reading Selections from Gilead by Marilynne Robinson

[From an Amazon.com review] The narrator, John Ames, is 76, a preacher who has lived almost all of his life in Gilead, Iowa. He is writing a letter to his almost seven-year-old son, the blessing of...

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On Human Nature — Marilynne Robinson

  Marilynne Robinson I was reading Marilynne Robinson’s Absence of Mind (the published version of her splendid Terry Lectures, delivered at Yale in 2009 ) when I came across David Bently Hart’s review...

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More Reading Selections from On Human Nature by Marilynne Robinson

  David Bentley Hart:  “The reductionist project apparently understands itself, and certainly presents itself, as a kind of scientific project. Thus it generates the literature of what Robinson aptly...

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Marilynne Robinson On William James

A review of a book I have on my wish list…Not the first time to post Marilynne Robinson. Selections from her On Human Nature here and here, if you wish to explore more. Years ago I first read Jacques...

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Reclaiming a Sense of the Sacred I By Marilynne Robinson

Myoung Ho Li photographed diverse species of trees with a 4x5 camera in a variety of seasons and at different times of day. Mr. Lee allows the tree’s natural surroundings to fill the frame around the...

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Reclaiming a Sense of the Sacred II By Marilynne Robinson

  Marilynne Robinson was raised as a Presbyterian and later became a Congregationalist, worshipping and sometimes preaching at the Congregational United Church of Christ in Iowa City. Her...

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Marilynne Robinson – James Wood

Behind all of Robinson’s works is an abiding interest in the question of heavenly restoration. As she puts it in Housekeeping, there is a law of completion, that everything “must finally be made...

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