Wednesday, August 29, 2007

Marilynne Robinson

This novelist, author of Gilead, has the only book at the Fort Collins library listed under "Calvinism in the United States."

So, I looked it up, and it's called The Death of Adam, and after further investigation on the internet, I have decided to check it out.

Here's a quote from the book (as found in the New York Times Book Review): "The modern fable is that science exposed religion as a delusion and more or less supplanted it. But science cannot serve in the place of religion because it cannot generate an ethics or a morality. It can give us no reason to prefer a child to a dog, or to choose honorable poverty over fraudulent wealth. It can give us no grounds for preferring what is excellent to what is sensationalistic. And this is more or less where we are now.''

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