{"product_id":"balm-in-gilead-a-theological-dialogue-with-marilynne-robinson-paperback","title":"Balm in Gilead: A Theological Dialogue with Marilynne Robinson - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eTimothy Larsen\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eKeith L. Johnson\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePulitzer Prize-winning novelist Marilynne Robinson is one of the most eminent public intellectuals in America today.\u003c\/b\u003e In addition to literary elegance, her trilogy of novels (\u003ci\u003eGilead\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHome\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eLila\u003c\/i\u003e) and her collections of essays offer probing meditations on the Christian faith. Many of these reflections are grounded in her belief that the sixteenth-century Protestant Reformer John Calvin still deserves a hearing in the twenty-first century. This volume, based on the 2018 Wheaton Theology Conference, brings together the thoughts of leading theologians, historians, literary scholars, and church leaders who engaged in theological dialogue with Robinson's published work--and with the author herself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTimothy George is the founding dean of Beeson Divinity School of Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama, and serves as an executive editor at \u003ci\u003eChristianity Today.\u003c\/i\u003e He is a member of the Southern Baptist-Roman Catholic Conversation Team and has participated in the Evangelicals and Catholics Together initiative. He is the series editor for the Reformation Commentary on Scripture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eMarilynne Robinson is the author of the bestselling novels \u003ci\u003eLila\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHome\u003c\/i\u003e (winner of the Orange Prize), \u003ci\u003eGilead\u003c\/i\u003e (winner of the Pulitzer Prize), and \u003ci\u003eHousekeeping\u003c\/i\u003e (winner of the PEN\/Hemingway Award). She has also written four books of nonfiction, \u003ci\u003eWhen I Was a Child I Read Books\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAbsence of Mind\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMother Country\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Death of Adam.\u003c\/i\u003e She teaches at the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. Robinson has been given honorary degrees from Brown University, the University of the South, Holy Cross, Notre Dame, Amherst, Skidmore, and Oxford University. She was also elected a fellow of Mansfield College, Oxford University.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eKeith L. Johnson (PhD, Princeton Theological Seminary) is associate professor of theology at Wheaton College. He is author of \u003ci\u003eTheology as Discipleship\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eKarl Barth and the Analogia Entis\u003c\/i\u003e, and he is the coeditor of \u003ci\u003eBonhoeffer, Christ and Culture\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eTimothy Larsen (PhD, University of Stirling) is McManis Professor of Christian Thought at Wheaton College. He is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society and an honorary fellow in the School of Divinity at the University of Edinburgh, and he has been a visiting fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge, and All Souls College, Oxford. He is the author of several books, including \u003ci\u003eGeorge MacDonald in the Age of Miracles\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eJohn Stuart Mill: A Secular Life\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Slain God: Anthropologists and the Christian Faith\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eA People of One Book: The Bible and the Victorians\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eCrisis of Doubt: Honest Faith in Nineteenth-Century England.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 236\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 02, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51779967811872,"sku":"9780830853182","price":33.46,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/5a0ec64c18f35143eae69a317383617e.webp?v=1780520876","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/balm-in-gilead-a-theological-dialogue-with-marilynne-robinson-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}