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Marilynne Robinson has written three prize-winning novels: Housekeeping (1980), Gilead (2004) and Home (2008). Her latest book, Absence of Mind (2010), publishes her 2009 Terry Lectures, a series dedicated to religion in the light of science and philosophy. She's in distinguished if eclectic and contentious company, as past lecturers include Paul Tillich, Eric Fromm, John Dewey, Jacques Maritain, Carl Jung, Paul Ricoeur, Hans Kung, John Polkinghorne, Mary Douglas, Peter Singer and Terry Eagleton, to name a few.

Quadrant, 2010-12, Vol.54 (12), p.94-99

What Makes a Human Being?

Robinson's prime target in the Terry lectures is the genre of book she calls "parascienctific": those ambitious works on scientific subjects, such as Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time, Daniel Dennett's Consciousness Explained, E. O. Wilson's Consilience, that have been aimed at a general audience and hence take the liberty of speculating beyond the limits that strict scientific discipline might normally impose on their authors. When a modern particle physicist writes about the qualities of a good hypothesis, the criteria for quality-robustness, elegance, simplicity-are pure Plato.\n Freud mounted his search for unived patterns of human consciousness, as she shows with vivid economy, precisely when (and perhaps because) many of his Viennese neighbors, including an aspiring painter named Adolf Hitler and the fiercely anti-Semitic mayor, Karl Lueger, were imbibing ideas about the specific destinies of Germanic Voh and wandering Jews.

The American scholar, 2010-07, Vol.79 (3), p.100

Reducing Science and Religion

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THE WORLD OF ODYSSEUS. By M. I. Finley
THE GREEK TYRANTS. By A. Andrewes
WOMEN IN ANTIQJUITY. By Charles Seltman
THE ROMANS WERE HERE. By Jack Lindsay
MEDIEVAL A HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH‐SPEAKING PEOPLES: I. THE BIRTH OF BRITAIN. By Winston S. Churchill
DARK AGE BRITAIN. Edited by D. B. Harden
AN INTRODUCTION TO ANGLO‐SAXON ENGLAND. By Peter Hunter Blair
STUDIES IN THE AGRARIAN HISTORY OF ENGLAND IN THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY. By E. A. Kosminsky
EARLY MODERN MOUNTJOY: ELIZABETHAN GENERAL. By Cyril Falls
MR. SECRETARY CECIL AND QUEEN ELIZABETH. By Conyers Read
SIR KENELM DIGBY: THE ORNAMENT OF ENGLAND, 1603‐1665. By R. T. Petersson
LATER MODERN AN ECONOMIC HISTORY OF ENGLAND: THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. By T. S. Ashton
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EUROPE'S CLASSICAL BALANCE OF POWER. By Edward Vose Gulick
BISMARCKS VERANTWORTLICHKEIT. By Leonhard von Muralt
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GENERAL STUDIES IN SOCIAL HISTORY. Edited by J. H. Plumb
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