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When I was a child I read books / Marilynne Robinson.
LIBRA - Athenaeum of Philadelphia Circulating PS3568.O3125 W47 2012
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Robinson, Marilynne.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Theology--United States.
- Theology.
- Calvinism--United States.
- Calvinism.
- Political science.
- Philosophy.
- United States.
- Political science--United States--Philosophy.
- United States--Civilization--Philosophy.
- Civilization.
- Philosophy, American.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 206 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Miller fund bookplate.
- ISBN:
- 9780374298784 ;
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