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When I was a child I read books / Marilynne Robinson. |
| Authors: | Robinson, Marilynne. |
| Call number: | 814.54 ROB |
| Publisher: | New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012. |
| Publication date: | 2012. |
| Subject: |
Theology -- United States.
Calvinism -- United States. Political science -- United States -- Philosophy. Philosophy, American. United States -- Civilization -- Philosophy. |
| Title: | When I was a child I read books / Marilynne Robinson. |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Physical description: | xvi, 206 p. ; 22 cm. |
| Contents note: | 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 note: | 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. |
| Biography note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-206). |
| ISBN: | 9780374298784 (alk. paper) 0374298785 (alk. paper) |
| LCCN: | 2011041206 |
| Url for this record: | http://sherloc.imcpl.org/?itemid=|library/marc/dynix|1347585 |
| Bib No.: | 1347585 |
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