Sunday Nov. 26 is the birthday of Marilynne Robinson, the renowned novelist and essayist!
The next collection of Marilynne Robinson essays — to be released in 2018 — is What Are We Doing Here?: Essays
In anticipation of this essay collection, we offer the following list of ten of the finest Marilynne Robinson essays that can be read in full online!
You will find the title essay of this forthcoming collection (which first appeared in The NY Review of Books) near the end of this list… Enjoy these essays!!!
of Marilynne Robinson
in Appreciation of Robinson
Reclaiming a Sense of the Sacred
Originally appeared in the Chronicle of Higher Education
Over the years of writing and teaching, I have tried to free myself of constraints I felt, limits to the range of exploration I could make, to the kind of intuition I could credit. I realized gradually that my own religion, and religion in general, could and should disrupt these constraints, which amount to a small and narrow definition of what human beings are and how human life is to be understood. And I have often wished my students would find religious standards present in the culture that would express a real love for human life and encourage them also to break out of these same constraints.
For the educated among us, moldy theories we learned as sophomores, memorized for the test and never consciously thought of again, exert an authority that would embarrass us if we stopped to consider them.
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