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History and meaning.(The Death of Adam: Essays on Modern Thought)(Book review)
The Death of Adam: Essays on Modern Thought, by Marilynne Robinson; Picador, 2005, US$14.
I KNOW THAT SOME READERS will share with me an ill-defined unease about modernity. Unfortunately, as we grow older, it becomes more difficult to decide whether our general mood of dissatisfaction with the zeitgeist is simply a nostalgic longing for a fondly remembered past--laudator temporis acti--or whether, indeed, things really have deteriorated. Is there some benchmark or set of values that can be used to measure the health of a civilisation such that we can ground our concern on something other than vague feelings? I doubt that any unambiguous analysis is available to ...
- Always new: Marilynne Robinson's essays bring theology to life.
- Magazine article from: Presbyterian Record Lee, Philip May 1, 2009 700+ words
The Death Of Adam: Essays On Modern Thought By Marilynne Robinson Mariner Books [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In this...offers insight into some other critical areas of modern thought such as Darwinism, capitalism, the American...
- American writer Marilynne Robinson wins 2009 Orange Prize.
- News wire article from: PTI - The Press Trust of India Ltd. June 4, 2009 700+ words
American writer Marilynne Robinson wins 2009 Orange Prize London, June 4 (PTI) Distinguished American writer Marilynne Robinson, has won the 2009 Orange Prize for...nuclear industry and a book of essays on modern thought.
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- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) January 15, 2005 700+ words
THIS is only the second book of fiction by Marilynne Robinson in 23 years. Her first, "Housekeeping", was praised by many. "Gilead...the shade entirely, and I think piety forbids me to try." Gilead. By Marilynne Robinson.
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- Magazine article from: Sojourners Magazine Montgomery-Fate, Tom June 1, 2006 700+ words
Marilynne Robinson's Pulitzer Prizewinning novel Gilead explores the beauty of...religious themes. Where did your interest in religion come from? Marilynne Robinson: I really don't know. I've always had an interest in theology...
- A preacher's last rites.(Gilead by Marilynne Robinson)(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: Sojourners Magazine Holcomb, Jesse March 1, 2005 700+ words
Gilead, by Marilynne Robinson. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. I confess I grew prickly imagining what lay behind the grim austerity of Marilynne Robinson's new title, Gilead. Her amalgam of fathers, sons, religion, and war--conjured in...
- Wrestling With Angels; 'Housekeeping' author returns with a keeper.(Gilead by...
- Magazine article from: Newsweek Jones, Malcolm December 6, 2004 700+ words
...and still live in a kind of exile. With that as her premise, Marilynne Robinson fashions a novel so strangely beguiling that it fully justifies...This is one of the best. CAPTION(S): Church lady: Author Marilynne Robinson
- Marilynne Robinson.(awards )(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: The Christian Century December 27, 2005 700+ words
Marilynne Robinson, whose novel Gilead won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, has been awarded the 2006 Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Religion...
- Church fathers: Marilynne Robinson deepens her investigation of faith and...
- Magazine article from: Artforum International Cohen, Rachel October 1, 2008 700+ words
For Marilynne Robinson, crafting a novel is a way to consider both the work of divinity and that of human obligation. The word craft has for her its...
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