Marilynne Robinson on Jonathan Edwards

Marilynne Robinson on Jonathan Edwards 2015-01-08T11:55:17-04:00

She’s a great novelist with a lyrical style and refreshing openness to the divine reality.  She also has a wonderful take below on  Edwards’s metaphysics (philosophy of how reality works).  But her comment that Edwards’s view of hell betrays his vision of love is all wet.  In a future post I will explain.

In the meantime, here is her illuminating short essay on America’s theologian.

http://www.neh.gov/humanities/2014/novemberdecember/feature/jonathan-edwards-in-new-light-remembered-preaching-fire-and


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