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What are we doing here? : essays / Marilynne Robinson.

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ISBN 9780349010458 (paperback)
Author Robinson, Marilynne author.
Title What are we doing here? : essays / Marilynne Robinson.
Publisher/Date London : Virago Press, an imprint of Little, Brown Book Group, 2018.
©2018
Pagination etc. xiv, 315 pages ; 22 cm
Contents note What is freedom of conscience? -- What are we doing here? -- Theology for the moment -- The sacred, the human -- The divine -- The American scholar now -- Grace and beauty -- A proof, a test, an instruction -- The beautiful changes -- Our public conversation: how America talks about itself -- Mind, conscience, soul -- Considering the theological virtues: faith, hope, and love -- Integrity and the modern intellectual tradition -- Old souls, new world -- Slander.
Summary Note In this essay collection, Marilynne Robinso trains her incisive mind on our modern political climate and the mysteries of faith. Whether she is investigating how the work of great thinkers about America like Emerson and Tocqueville inform our political consciousness or discussing the way that beauty informs and disciplines daily life, Robinson's peerless prose and boundless humanity are on full display. What Are We Doing Here? is a call to continue the tradition of the great thinkers and to remake political and cultural life as deeply impressed by obligation [and as] a great theatre of heroic generosity, which, despite all, is sometimes palpable still. In our era of rampant political and cultural pessimism, we run the risk of becoming bogged down in disillusionment and of losing sight of ways out of the mire. In What Are We Doing Here?, the incomparable Marilynne Robinson offers us balm: impelling us to action, but offering us hope..
Subject Faith and reason
American essays -- 21st century
Essays.
Shelf Location 230.01 ROBI
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