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20 Mar 2024 Conversations with Tyler Marilynne Robinson on Biblical Interpretation, Calvinist Thought, and Religion in America
“Part of the reason I think that we have so often God choosing almost at random among people is to make the point that he’s acting through them rather than they’re acting out of some singular quality of their own person.”
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- Marilynne Robinson
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- 20 Mar 2024
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…You write in your book, and I quote, “The great figures of scripture are not at all Homeric.” What did you mean by that? In a Homeric character, they tend to be demigods, for one thing. Their nature is complicated by the influence of a divine parent. They’re superhuman in a sense. In the Bible, there is no intention to make anyone exceed his humanity, that God is always working through people that are recognizably fallible, limited human beings. Part of the reason I think that we have so often God choosing almost at random among people is to make the point that he’s acting through them rather than they’re acting out of some singular quality of their own person. That would be true, say, for the elevation of Moses, who at first is a stumbling, bumbling figure, a stutterer, not very confident. But God elevates Moses.…
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