In this article at the Front Porch Republic, I gave my take on Marilynne Robinson’s literary vision by employing Augustine’s theology of goodness and evil.
It has seemed to me sometimes as though the Lord breathes on this poor gray ember of Creation and it turns to radiance—for a moment or a year or the span of a life. . . . But the Lord is more constant and far more extravagant than it seems to imply. Wherever you turn your eyes the world can shine like transfiguration. You don’t have to bring a thing to it except a little willingness to see. Only who could have the courage to see it?
Marilynne Robinson, Gilead
