The death of Adam : essays on modern thought / Marilynne Robinson.
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TextPublication details: New York : Picador, c2005.Edition: 1st Picador edDescription: 262 p. ; 21 cmISBN: - 0312425325 (pbk.)
- 9780312425326 (pbk.)
- Essays on modern thought
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Main Library | NonFiction | 973.92 R663 | Checked out | 05/28/2024 | 33111006981928 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
In this award-winning collection, the bestselling author of Gilead offers us other ways of thinking about history, religion, and society. Whether rescuing "Calvinism" and its creator Jean Cauvin from the repressive "puritan" stereotype, or considering how the McGuffey readers were inspired by Midwestern abolitionists, or the divide between the Bible and Darwinism, Marilynne Robinson repeatedly sends her reader back to the primary texts that are central to the development of American culture but little read or acknowledged today.
A passionate and provocative celebration of ideas, the old arts of civilization, and life's mystery, The Death of Adam is, in the words of Robert D. Richardson, Jr., "a grand, sweeping, blazing, brilliant, life-changing book."
"November 2005"--T.p. verso.
Darwinism -- Facing reality -- Family -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer -- McGuffey and the abolitionists -- Puritans and prigs -- Marguerite de Navarre -- Marguerite de Navarre, Part II -- Psalm eight -- Wilderness -- Tyranny of petty coercion.