| Imprint: |
Thorndike, Me. : Center Point Pub., 2012. |
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| Edition: |
Large print ed. |
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| ISBN: |
9781611734287 (library binding : alk. paper) 1611734282 (library binding : alk. paper) |
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| Call number: |
LT 814.54 ROB |
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| Physical description: |
302 p. (large print) ; 22 cm. |
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| Subject: |
Theology -- United States.
Calvinism -- United States.
Political science -- United States -- Philosophy.
Philosophy, American.
Large type books.
United States -- Civilization -- Philosophy.
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| Note: |
"Center Point large print edition." Includes bibliographical references. |
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| Summary note: |
Since the 1981 publication of Marilynne Robinson's novel, Housekeeping, she has built a sterling reputation not only as a writer of sharp, subtly moving prose, but also as a rigorous thinker and incisive essayist. In this new collection she returns to the themes which have preoccupied her work: the role of faith in modern life, the inadequacy of fact, and the contradictions inherent in human nature. Clear-eyed and forceful as ever, Robinson demonstrates once again why she is regarded as a modern rhetorical master. |
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| 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. |
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| Item availability |
Warren Library LT 814.54 ROB |
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