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Dostoevsky: A Theological Engagement
Pickwick Publications
ISBN13:
9781498218375
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As a writer and prophet Dostoevsky was no academic theologian, yet his writings are deeply theological: his life, beliefs, even his epilepsy, all had a role in generating his theology and eschatology. Dostoevsky's novels are riven with paradoxes, are deeply dialectical, and represent a criticism of religion, offered in the service of the gospel. In this task he presented a profound understanding and portrait of humanity. Dostoevsky's novels chart the movement of the human into death: either the movement through paradox and Christlikeness into Christ's cross (a soteriology often characterized by the apophatic negation and self-denial; what we may term "the Mark of Abel") leading to salvation and resurrection; or, conversely, the movement of those who refuse Christ's invitation to be redeemed, and continue to fall into a self-willed death and a self-generated hell (the Mark of "Cain"). This eschatology becomes a theological axiom which he unceasingly warned people of in his mature works. Startlingly original, stripped of all religious pretence (some prostitutes and criminals might just have a better understanding of salvation than some of the pietistic, wealthy, and cultured classes), Dostoevsky as a prophet forewarned of the politicized humanistic delusions of the twentieth century: a prophet crying out through the wilderness.
- | Author: P. H. Brazier, Murray Rae
- | Publisher: Pickwick Publications
- | Publication Date: Jun 02, 2016
- | Number of Pages: 218 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback/Biography & Autobiography
- | ISBN-10: 1498218377
- | ISBN-13: 9781498218375
- Author:
- P. H. Brazier, Murray Rae
- Publisher:
- Pickwick Publications
- Publication Date:
- Jun 02, 2016
- Number of pages:
- 218 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback/Biography & Autobiography
- ISBN-10:
- 1498218377
- ISBN-13:
- 9781498218375