Episode · Conversations with Tyler · 2024-03-20
Books mentioned on Marilynne Robinson on Biblical Interpretation, Calvinist Thought, and Religion in America
Marilynne Robinson is one of America's best and best-known novelists and essayists, whose award-winning works like Housekeeping and Gilead explore themes of faith, grace, and the intricacies of human nature.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Reading Genesis
Reading Genesis by Marilynne Robinson offers a theological and literary examination of the biblical Book of Genesis.
Recommended“before my last question I would just like to repeat to our listeners and readers Marilyn Robinson has a new book out which I enjoyed very much reading Genesis which is about of course the Book of Genesis in the Bible”
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Summa Theologiae
Discussed“Thomas aquinus believed in it for example wrote about it you know in Sim country dulis and also in the Suma theologia”
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Summa contra gentiles
Discussed“Thomas aquinus believed in it for example wrote about it you know in Sim country dulis and also in the Suma theologia”
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The Republic
The Republic by Plato is a foundational philosophical text exploring justice, the ideal political state, the nature of reality through the allegory of the cave, and the evolution of various political regimes including democracy.
Discussed“he's doing kind of like Plato in the Republic he's saying this is this is how we develop the idea of a community”
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Institutes of the Christian Religion
Discussed“the addition of institutes that I own I think it's about 1100 pages with relatively fine print if you were making a case to people why they should read it other than well you'll see what Calvin really thought”
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Mother country
Discussed“your very first book which is called mother country it's about nuclear pollution in Great Britain why did you write that book many people are surprised when they learn that's a book of yours”
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Housekeeping
Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson is a celebrated novel that examines themes of transience, grief, and the profound ripples of family trauma through a distinctively poetic lens.
Recommended“but I'm very happy to recommend all of her books and of course her famous novels to you housekeeping I think being my favorite”
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Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“well my first book is actually the novel housekeeping nuclear pollution came after I'm sorry okay it was my second book”