Marilynne Robinson

A peculiarity of the age is that one of our most profound Christian intellectuals is a reclusive Calvinist writer of (mostly) fiction who lives in Iowa City. Marilynne Robinson will receive the Kuyper Prize from Princeton Theological Seminary next Thursday and deliver a lecture entitled "Open Wide Thy Hand: Moses and the Origins of American Liberalism" (details here). Anyone who has not read her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Gilead should do so immediately.