Buch, Englisch, 216 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 323 g
Buch, Englisch, 216 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 323 g
ISBN: 978-0-7188-9536-5
Verlag: The Lutterworth Press
An insightful study of the theological and eschatological themes at the core of the work of the great Russian writer Fyodor Dostoevsky.
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 histheology 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 selfgenerated 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, Dostoevsky as a prophet forewarned of the politicized humanistic delusions of the twentieth century: a prophet crying out through the wilderness.
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Table of Contents:
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Foreword
Introduction
Part One
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, Writer and Prophet
Chapter 1 Ideas and Ideology, Eschatology and Possession
Chapter 2 Formation and Influences
Part Two
Dostoevsky's Theological Anthropology
Chapter 3 Dostoevsky, Writer and Prophet
Chapter 4 The Human Condition before God
Part Three
Dialectic and a Critique of Religion in the Service of the
Gospel
Chapter 5 Dialectic and a Critique of Religion
Chapter 6 Dostoevsky: Religion and Atheism
Chapter 7 Sin and Grace: A Dialectic of Salvation
Conclusion
Bibliography
Indices
Sectional Contents
