The Immature Christ: Childish Compassion in Dostoevsky’s The Idiot
by‘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
by‘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…
The Difficulty of Christ’s Death in Ippolit’s ‘Necessary Explanation’
by‘Is it right, Prince, that you once said the world would be saved by “beauty”?’ ‘What is there for me in all this beauty,…
Dostoevsky and the Doctrinal Imagination
byEditor’s note: This article by ITIA Lecturer Rebekah Lamb begins our series on ‘Dostoevsky and Christian Doctrine’. Dr. Lamb explains the genesis of the…
The Epiphany and Poetry
byThe Feast of the Epiphany is a day that commemorates, among Western Christians, the visit of royal magi to the baby Jesus and, among…
‘The Gods are Here, Invisible, Mischievous, and Meddling’: Vladimir Nabokov and the Presence of God in John 19
by‘I used to be a little conjuror when I was a boy. I loved doing simple tricks—turning water into wine, that kind of thing;…
Time and Faith within the Urban and the Rural, Part 2
byAfter last week looking at the importance of the city in T. S. Eliot’s poetry, we now turn to the rural context. Eliot’s final…