She is one of the only Protestant novelists that most Christians can name. This is why critiquing Robinson will earn you any number of enemies. As one of my friends says, she is doing what we all hope to do-succeed in our craft, not only in spite of, but rather by proclaiming our faith. She flies her flag with the Congregationalists and adores John Calvin. Yet, for all her success among worldly patrons, she has been lauded by Protestants because she affirms much of the Christian faith. She teaches at the nation’s premiere creative writing program at the University of Iowa. She received the Pulitzer Prize for Gilead. Robinson has authored four novels and half a dozen essay collections. Lewis was our Protestant saint for the 20 th century, Marilynne Robinson is considered by many to be on her way to literary canonization. –Hans Urs von Balthasar, Glory of the Lord If we seek Christ’s beauty in a glory which is not that of the Crucified, we are doomed to seek in vain.
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