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Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Marilynne Robinson is one of the most eminent public intellectuals in America today, and her writing offers probing meditations on the Christian faith. Based on the 2018 Wheaton Theology Conference, this volume brings together the thoughts of leading theologians, historians, literary scholars, and church leaders who engaged in theological dialogue with Robinson's work-and with the author herself.
About the author
Timothy George is the founding dean of Beeson Divinity School of Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama, and serves as an executive editor at
Christianity Today. He is a member of the Southern Baptist-Roman Catholic Conversation Team and has participated in the Evangelicals and Catholics Together initiative. He is the series editor for the Reformation Commentary on Scripture.
Marilynne Robinson is the author of the bestselling novels
Lila,
Home (winner of the Orange Prize),
Gilead (winner of the Pulitzer Prize), and
Housekeeping (winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award). She has also written four books of nonfiction,
When I Was a Child I Read Books,
Absence of Mind,
Mother Country, and
The Death of Adam. She teaches at the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. Robinson has been given honorary degrees from Brown University, the University of the South, Holy Cross, Notre Dame, Amherst, Skidmore, and Oxford University. She was also elected a fellow of Mansfield College, Oxford University.
Timothy Larsen (PhD, University of Stirling) is McManis Professor of Christian Thought at Wheaton College. He is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society and an honorary fellow in the School of Divinity at the University of Edinburgh, and he has been a visiting fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge, and All Souls College, Oxford. He is the author of several books, including
George MacDonald in the Age of Miracles,
John Stuart Mill: A Secular Life,
The Slain God: Anthropologists and the Christian Faith,
A People of One Book: The Bible and the Victorians, and
Crisis of Doubt: Honest Faith in Nineteenth-Century England.Keith L. Johnson (PhD, Princeton Theological Seminary) is associate professor of theology at Wheaton College. He is author of
Theology as Discipleship and
Karl Barth and the Analogia Entis, and he is the coeditor of
Bonhoeffer, Christ and Culture.
