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Marilynne Robinson joins JEC Board

We are very happy to announce that novelist Marilynne Robinson has joined the board of the Jonathan Edwards Center. A consistently wise and provocative voice in American letters, Robinson won the Pulitzer Prize in 2005 for Gilead, a novel about three generations of an Iowa ministerial family.

On her visit to our offices at Yale, Ms. Robinson reported that she had an intellectual awakening as a college sophomore while reading a footnote on moonlight in The Doctrine of Original Sin Defended. She found that the spiritual and intellectual world that Edwards articulated in that particular work was one that gave her a way "to think of reality as occupying an infinitely larger and more dynamic space...than I had ever before imagined."

We hope to hear more from Ms. Robinson on this and other matters of Edwardsean interest in the future and are delighted to welcome her to our board.

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