Tiffany Eberle Kriner is Associate Professor of English at Wheaton College and the author of The Future of the Word: An Eschatology of Reading (Fortress, 2014). She also works in silvopasturing at Root and Sky Farm in Marengo, IL.
Tiffany Eberle Kriner
Articles by Tiffany Eberle Kriner
Marilynne Robinson’s Jack and the Need to be Forgiven
Much of the novel reads like this sentence—the internal struggle of someone who wants—not forgiveness, nor salvation, really, but rather to not need to be forgiven, to not require salvation…