TY - BOOK AU - Robinson,Marilynne TI - When I was a child I read books SN - 9780374298784 (alk. paper) AV - PS3568.O3125 W47 2012 U1 - 814/.54 23 PY - 2012/// CY - New York PB - Farrar, Straus and Giroux KW - Theology KW - United States KW - Calvinism KW - Political science KW - Philosophy KW - Philosophy, American KW - Civilization N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-206); Freedom of thought -- Imagination and community -- Austerity as ideology -- Open thy hand wide : Moses and the origins of American liberalism -- When I was a child -- The fate of ideas : Moses -- Wondrous love -- The human spirit and the good society -- Who was Oberlin? -- Cosmology N2 - In this new collection of incisive essays, Robinson returns to the themes which have preoccupied her work: the role of faith in modern life, the inadequacy of fact, the contradictions inherent in human nature ER -