“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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Published in:Religion and the arts
Main Author: Stout, Andrew C. (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: Brill 2014
In: Religion and the arts
Further subjects:B Marilynne Robinson John Calvin Housekeeping Gilead creational theology sacramental theology
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