From Communication to Communion: Dialogic Partnership in Dostoevsky’s The Idiot
byDostoevsky offers many interesting theological threads to follow in The Idiot, and, for me, amid all of its chaotic conversations I found a compelling…
Dostoevsky offers many interesting theological threads to follow in The Idiot, and, for me, amid all of its chaotic conversations I found a compelling…
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…
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:…
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…
‘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’….
‘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…
‘Is it right, Prince, that you once said the world would be saved by “beauty”?’ ‘What is there for me in all this beauty,…