Tag: Dostoevsky
Beauty in Tragedy: The Idiot, Dostoevsky, and Eucatastrophe
There is a striking image in Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novel The Idiot: a painting titled The Body of the Dead Christ in the Tomb. The famed Russian author was so disturbed by the image that he remarked, “One can lose his faith from a painting like that.”
From Literature to Film: Adapting Dostoevsky’s Works
Long ago, I read a story in the Washington Post on the topic of literacy. It presented John, a student working on his Masters in Education, who hoped to be a teacher someday. He stated that he didn’t like to read.
Review of James Scanlan’s Dostoevsky the Thinker
Despite the current state of Russian society (or arguably because of it), a review of Dostoevsky’s philosophical thought, fundamentally based on love as found in his Christian faith, is highly relevant today.
Crazy Love: The Action and Call of Grace in Dostoevsky’s “The Dream of the Ridiculous Man”
As Christians, we recognize the most fantastic story of all in the Incarnation, Death, and Resurrection of Jesus Christ.
Underground Apologetics
“We make still by the law by which we’re made.” With these words, and with others so aimed, J.R.R. Tolkien once assaulted C.S. Lewis’s uneasy atheism.
Dostoevsky, Man About Town: Gulags, Muscovite Gentlemen, and Murakami
Had Dostoevsky not existed, we may very well have needed to invent him.
The Heart of Christ and Dostoevsky’s “The Christmas Tree and a Wedding”
Dostoevsky is a master of irony. His stories are characterized by a bite of satire, a sting of social conscience, and a stirring of the Spirit. This early “Christmas” story is no exception.
Soul Survival Kit: Tolstoy and Dostoevsky
As Philip Yancey described various inspirational though “unlikely mentors” who helped his “faith survive the church,” Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) and Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-81), a pair of Russian nineteenth century novelists, appeared on his list.
What Would I Be without God?
The narrative of Dostoevsky’s own life unfurled pages revealing the impacts of the hearts of darkness that shaped the society around him.
The Brothers Karamazov and the Existential Problem of Atheism
Fyodor Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov is sometimes called a work of “philosophical fiction.”
Dear, Kind God: A Divine Dilemma
‘Twas a triviality that drove her mother, /
A woman of superb breeding and culture, /
To grasp feces and anoint her little face, /
Consecrating her own child in a foul place.
Fifty Shades of Bleak: The Karamazov Principle Explored
The novels of Dostoevsky are haunted by the bleakest of “What ifs.” What if there is no God?
Dostoevsky the Culturally Active Christian
The genius writer was also a potent social critic motivated by deeply held Christian faith.
Dostoevsky’s Narratives of (un)Belief: From Psychology to Theology
For a writer universally considered one of the greatest Christian novelists of our age, Fyodor Dostoevsky actually spent as much time in his post-Siberia novels writing about unbelief as he did about faith.
To Live Dangerously or Die Trying
An unwanted party guest attempts to defile an imaginative dinner party of classical thinkers who are presumably friends as they discover the happiness within.
