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Published · transcript-backedMarilynne Robinson: belief
20 Mar 2024 Conversations with Tyler Marilynne Robinson on Biblical Interpretation, Calvinist Thought, and Religion in America
“I think that there’s no necessity, no causality in the way that things work among human beings, that God is free to choose the younger brother.”
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- Marilynne Robinson
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- 20 Mar 2024
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…It seems, in the Hebrew Bible, the older brother typically does worse or is somehow dethroned or put down. Why is that? What is that telling us? I think that there’s no necessity, no causality in the way that things work among human beings, that God is free to choose the younger brother. The conventions of human society, primogeniture and so on, are not salient in terms of God’s intentions. In your Calvinist view, is it elevating predestination over human institutions and human choices?…
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