‘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…
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From Communication to Communion: Dialogic Partnership in Dostoevsky’s The Idiot
Dostoevsky offers many interesting theological threads to follow in The Idiot, and, for me, amid all of its chaotic conversations I found a compelling…
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‘I Am the Sole Outcast’: Ippolit Among Dostoevsky’s Atheists
I. Henri de Lubac observes that ‘Dostoevsky’s books abound in atheists’. [1] The novelist explores the ‘psychology of unbelief’ by making many of his…
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Self-Destruction as Love? Kenosis at the Conclusion of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s The Idiot
In a letter written in 1864, Fyodor Dostoevsky gives a memorable account of the self as an obstacle to the act of Christ-like love:…
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The Problem of Hierarchy in The Idiot
Many may wonder if the dogmatic claims in doctrinal statements such as the Apostle’s Creed are still true or relevant to the lives of…
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The Immature Christ: Childish Compassion in Dostoevsky’s The Idiot
‘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’….
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An Astonishing Face: Encounters with the Other in The Idiot
‘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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