num_pages: 263
description: 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."
language: English
title: The Death of Adam: Essays on Modern Thought
titlecomplete: The Death of Adam: Essays on Modern Thought
genres: Christianity, History, Cultural, Philosophy, Religion, Theology, Faith, Essays, Nonfiction, Politics
ratings_count: 1247
awards: awardedAt: 915177600000
name: PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay 
publisher: Picador