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Life & Faith: Exceptional
The human brain is the most complex object
known to exist in the universe.
This is the thought that Marilynne Robinson
begins many of her classes with. The Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and
acclaimed essayist is a Professor at the University of Iowa’s Writers’
Workshop.
“I want to encourage my young writers to
value their characters sufficiently to make them complex enough to be credible
and also to value themselves in a way that makes them push toward real
authenticity, real originality,” she says.
Human exceptionalism is something that comes
across not only in the characters she writes about, but in the way she treats
her readers.
Robinson’s latest offering, The Givenness
of Things, builds bridges across science and religion, theology and humanism,
to provide a gracious, respectful, and an ultimately hopeful contribution to public
culture and conversation about life and what it means to be human.
“We know that given any possibility, human
beings blossom into beauty and ingenuity and tragedy and all the rest of it
that could not be anticipated and that the world would be utterly cruel
without,” she says.
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The human brain is the most complex object
known to exist in the universe.
This is the thought that Marilynne Robinson
begins many of her classes with. The Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and
acclaimed essayist is a Professor at the University of Iowa’s Writers’
Workshop.
“I want to encourage my young writers to
value their characters sufficiently to make them complex enough to be credible
and also to value themselves in a way that makes them push toward real
authenticity, real originality,” she says.
Human exceptionalism is something that comes
across not only in the characters she writes about, but in the way she treats
her readers.
Robinson’s latest offering, The Givenness
of Things, builds bridges across science and religion, theology and humanism,
to provide a gracious, respectful, and an ultimately hopeful contribution to public
culture and conversation about life and what it means to be human.
“We know that given any possibility, human
beings blossom into beauty and ingenuity and tragedy and all the rest of it
that could not be anticipated and that the world would be utterly cruel
without,” she says.
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SUBSCRIBE to our podcast: http://bit.ly/lifeandfaithpodcast
READ Natasha Moore’s review on The
Givenness of Things: http://ab.co/1oqtqI6
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