Dostoevsky : A Theological Engagement PDF
by P H Brazier
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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 histheology and eschatology.
Dostoevsky's novels are riven with paradoxes, aredeeply 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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- Pages:216 pages
- Publisher:The Lutterworth Press
- Publication Date:25/10/2018
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- Format:PDF
- Pages:216 pages
- Publisher:The Lutterworth Press
- Publication Date:25/10/2018
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- ISBN:9780718847630
