Displaying 1 of 1 2012 Format: Book Author: Robinson, Marilynne, author. Title: When I was a child I read books / Marilynne Robinson. Edition: 1st ed. Publisher, Date: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012. Description: xvi, 206 pages ; 22 cm 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. Subjects: Theology -- United States. Calvinism -- United States. Political science -- United States -- Philosophy. Philosophy, American. United States -- Civilization -- Philosophy. Genre: Essays. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 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. LCCN: 2011041206 ISBN: 9780374298784 0374298785 Other Number: 740628822 System Availability: 2 Current Holds: 0 # Local items: 2 Control Number: 313003 # Local items in: 2 # System items in: 2 Call Number: 814 Robinson Place Hold Add to My List Expand All | Collapse All Availability Map It Suggestions and more Displaying 1 of 1
