Marilynne Robinson Theologian Of The Ordinary Andrew Cunning by Andrew Cunning 9781501358999, 9781501359026, 1501358995, 1501359029 instant download after payment.

Marilynne Robinson, Theologian of the Ordinary posits that Robinson’s widely celebrated novels and essays are best understood as emerging from a foundational theology that has 'the ordinary' as its source. Providing an analysis of Robinson’s published output, a synthesis of the unstudied and unpublished notebooks, letters and drafts from Yale University's Robinson archive and an original interview with Robinson, Andrew Cunning constructs an authentically Robinsonian theology that is at once distinctly American and conversant with key continental thinkers, including Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Freud and Levinas.
This book demonstrates that ‘the ordinary’ is the (re)source of Robinson’s writing and, as a phenomenon that opens onto a surplus of meaning, is where Robinson’s notion of transcendence emerges. Robinson’s theology is one centered on the material reality of the world and on the subjective nature of one’s encounter with oneself and the physical stuff of existence. Arguing that 'the ordinary' demands an artistic response, this book reads Robinson’s fiction as her theological response to the surplus of meaning in ordinary experience.