Episode · Conversations with Tyler · 2024-03-20
Tyler Cowen & Marilynne Robinson: books mentioned on Conversations with Tyler
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.
Tyler Cowen recommended Reading Genesis by Marilynne Robinson and Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson, and discussed Mother country by Marilynne Robinson. Marilynne Robinson discussed Summa contra gentiles by Thomas Aquinas and others, Summa Theologiae by Thomas Aquinas and others, Institutes of the Christian Religion by John Calvin, and The Republic.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Reading Genesis
Reading Genesis by Marilynne Robinson is a deeply contemplative non-fiction work in which the esteemed author offers a theological and literary interpretation of the biblical Book of Genesis.
Recommended“today I'm talking with Marilyn Robinson one of America's best and best known writers she is also a non-fiction essayist and now she has a new book out called reading Genesis by Marilyn Robinson which I recommend highly”
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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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Summa Theologiae
Summa Theologiae by Thomas Aquinas is a monumental theological and philosophical text that systematically addresses foundational questions concerning God, morality, and human existence through a rigorous, structured method of inquiry.
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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Institutes of the Christian Religion
Discussed“you know I mean every these people that call themselves Calvinists you there's no no great likelihood that they will have read the the institutes or anything else that he wrote”
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The Republic
Plato's foundational classical text "The Republic" explores justice, political structures, and the nature of reality.
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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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 debut novel that explores themes of grief, transience, and the profound, haunting isolation experienced by two orphaned sisters raised by eccentric relatives in a remote Idaho town.
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”