Great post at Christianity Today's adorably named Her.Meneutics on novelist Marilynne Robinson: The Calvinist on the Bestseller List. She's great. You should go read the article.
Given the dramatic and oft-noted rise of the religious "nones," Marilynne Robinson's sterling reputation and popularity as a novelist and essayist—not merely among Christians, but among critics and readers of every faith and no faith—is something of a surprise. Robinson's rigorous intellect is wedded to a profound appreciation of the human soul; her creative vision takes shape in relation to her Christian faith.
"I have read and loved a lot of literature about religion and religious experience – Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Flannery O’Connor, the Bible," Mark O'Connell writes in The New Yorker, "but it’s only with Robinson that I have actually felt what it must be like to live with a sense of the divine."
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