Marilynne Robinson and Calvin

Andrew Brown of The Guardian interviews novelist Marilynne Robinson about her fascination with Calvin:

“One of the things that has really struck me, reading Calvin,” she said then, “is what a strong sense he has that the aesthetic is the signature of the divine. If someone in some sense lives a life that we can perceive as beautiful in its own way, that is something that suggests grace, even if by a strict moral standard … they might seem to fail.”