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100	1		_aRobinson, Marilynne. _9155177
245	1	4	_aThe death of Adam : _bessays on modern thought / _cMarilynne Robinson.
246	3	0	_aEssays on modern thought
250			_a1st Picador ed.
260			_aNew York : _bPicador, _cc2005.
300			_a262 p. ; _c21 cm.
500			_a"November 2005"--T.p. verso.
505	0	0	_tDarwinism -- _tFacing reality -- _tFamily -- _tDietrich Bonhoeffer -- _tMcGuffey and the abolitionists -- _tPuritans and prigs -- _tMarguerite de Navarre -- _tMarguerite de Navarre, Part II -- _tPsalm eight -- _tWilderness -- _tTyranny of petty coercion.
520			_a"My intention, my hope, is to revive interest in... John Calvin. If I had been forthright about my subject, I doubt that the average reader would have read this far." That's the introduction to one essay, but it could also apply to most of Robinson's (Housekeeping) first book in nearly a decade. Among the 10 essays here is one on the idea of wilderness and an intensely personal meditation on growing up Presbyterian, but these are essentially afterthoughts to an impassioned argument against America's contemporary social Darwinists cum free marketeers. And here's where Calvin comes in. She rebuts the characterization of Calvin as protocapitalist and the quick dismissal of his Puritan followers as prigs. Instead, she finds in their example a more fulfilling morality, one that substitutes personal responsibility for contemptuous condemnation of our fellows and a more personal, independent relationship with God and conscience. The corollary of the notion that "our unhappiness is caused by society, is that society can make us happy," she writes, adding, "Whatever else it is, morality is a covenant with oneself, which can only be imposed and enforced by oneself." Though there are occasional problems, for example, the argument "an important historical 'proof' very current among us now is that Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence unconscious of the irony of the existence of slavery" is simply a straw man. But for the most part her moral integrity is accompanied by an equally rigorous intellectual integrity, and rather than accepting received wisdom she hunts it out for herself among original texts. In the process, she revives founding beliefs as a possible solution for current ills.
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651		0	_aUnited States _xCivilization _xEuropean influences. _9155181
650		0	_aTheology _zUnited States _xHistory. _943569
650		0	_aCalvinism _zUnited States. _955268
650		7	_aCalvinism. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst00844591 _9155182
650		7	_aCivilization _xEuropean influences. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01352356 _9155183
650		7	_aCivilization _xPhilosophy. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst00862931 _9155184
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651		7	_aUnited States. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01204155 _9155186
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