“In the Way of the Gift”: The Postsecular Conditions of Grace in Marilynne Robinson’s <i>Gilead</i>

In Robinson’s <i>Gilead</i>, one of Ames’ greatest hopes is for his son to place himself “in the way of the gift.” What is this gift, and what does it mean to place oneself in its way? The gift, I will argue, is what Charles Taylor has described as a moral source that is mediated by inte...

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