Marilynne Robinson’s Critique of the “New Orthodoxy”

Marilynne Robinson, Christian novelist and author of the beautiful (and Pulitzer Prize-winning) novel Gilead has come out with a new book, non-fiction this time, entitled Absence of Mind: The Dispelling of Inwardness from the Modern Myth of the Self. In it, according to this article in Publishers Weekly, Robinson writes on the relationship between science and religion and “a body of thought,” according to Robinson, “that has calcified into orthodoxy.” (The article includes a short but worthwhile interview with Robinson.)