Tag: Nuance

• March 10, 2012

  On the value of paying attention: An excerpt from Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead

  The following is an excerpt from Marilynne Robinson’s novel Gilead (New York: FSG, 2004), pp. 28-9. The narrator, Reverend John Ames, is 76-years-old and dying. As his final word, he has decided to write a letter to his 7-year-old son. The year is 1956. In the excerpt below, he refers to Feuerbach, a prominent atheist living during…