When I was a child I read books
By: Marilynne Robinson
Edition: 1st Canadian ed.
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 206
ISBN-13: 9781443410915
Subjects: Theology; Calvinism; Political science; Philosophy; American Philosophy; Civilization
Description: 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.
Notes: Essays.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Freedom of thought; title: Imagination and community; title: Austerity as ideology; title: Open thy hand wide : Moses and the origins of American liberalism; title: When I was a child; title: The fate of ideas : Moses; title: Wondrous love; title: The human spirit and the good society; title: Who was Oberlin?; title: Cosmology.