Chad Wriglesworth

The Beauty of Souls

Arts & Literature

“The Beauty of Souls provides an interpretive map for curious readers, those wanting to explore some of the most enduring topics in Marilynne Robinson's writing: namely, the integrative relationship between human souls, beauty, and lived experience. After giving us robust insight into these matters through Robinson's essays, Mark S. M. Scott guides us through the theological and aesthetic nuances of her fictional worlds--places where wandering souls are beautiful, wounded, and embattled--but this book does even more. In our own noisy world, Scott's gentle voice helps us begin to recognize and reclaim the interior landscape of our lives. By the end of this journey, readers will see that each soul--whether encountered in the self, in others, or in representations of art--is a created gift, something as tangible and irreducible as a resonating symphony or a luminous painting.”