“A Little Willingness to See”: Sacramental Vision in Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping and Gilead
The “sacramental imagination” is closely associated with writers from the Roman Catholic tradition. However, Marilynne Robinson, drawing on the creational and sacramental theology of John Calvin, has successfully developed a distinctly American Protestant sacramental vision in and through her novels...
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