
‘Like a Child’: The Virtues of Childhood in The Idiot
In a novel tasked with depicting the ‘positively good man’, it is significant that the majority of characters who are characterized as ‘good’ in…
Read MoreIn a novel tasked with depicting the ‘positively good man’, it is significant that the majority of characters who are characterized as ‘good’ in…
Read MoreDostoevsky offers many interesting theological threads to follow in The Idiot, and, for me, amid all of its chaotic conversations I found a compelling…
Read MoreI. Henri de Lubac observes that ‘Dostoevsky’s books abound in atheists’. [1] The novelist explores the ‘psychology of unbelief’ by making many of his…
Read MoreIn a letter written in 1864, Fyodor Dostoevsky gives a memorable account of the self as an obstacle to the act of Christ-like love:…
Read MoreMany may wonder if the dogmatic claims in doctrinal statements such as the Apostle’s Creed are still true or relevant to the lives of…
Read More‘Well that’s … the sort of thing you read about in novels! Prince, darling, that’s all old-fashioned nonsense, the world has grown wiser nowadays’….
Read More‘I can’t understand how one can pass a tree and not be happy at seeing it! Talk to a man and not be happy…
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