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  • Robinson, Marilynne.
     
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  • Theology.
     
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  • Philosophy, American.
     
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    When I was a child I read books / Marilynne Robinson.
    by Robinson, Marilynne.
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    Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012.
    Call #:814.54 R663w
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  • Theology.
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  • Calvinism.
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  • Political science -- Philosophy.
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  • Philosophy, American.
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  • United States -- Civilization -- Philosophy.
  • ISBN: 
    9780374298784 (alk. paper)
    0374298785 (alk. paper)
    Edition: 
    1st ed.
    Description: 
    xvi, 206 p. ; 22 cm.
    Notes: 
    "Essays." -- Jacket.
    Bibliography: 
    Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-206).
    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.
    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.
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