How can a God of perfect love be the author of perfect hate? Ivan finds the thought unbearable. If human harmony requires the suffering of one innocent child, he berates his brother, it is “too high a price ... and so I return my ...
Clear and compelling new readings of Dostoevsky's last and greatest novel.
This book shows deconstructing need not end in unbelief. In fact, deconstructing can be the road toward reconstructing--building up a more mature, robust faith that grapples honestly with the deepest questions of life."--Page 4 of cover
He works on another case, helping a troubled young boy, Cole, who oddly claims that he can see dead people. Though Malcolm thinks this is a delusion, over time, he comes to believe that the boy is telling the truth and counsels him to ...
More than a biography in the usual sense, this is a cultural history of nineteenth-century Russia, providing both a rich picture of the world in which Dostoevsky lived and a major reinterpretation of his life and work.
As Ivan laments the collapse of religion Muhsin suggests that he build his faith on the essence of sacred books without ... Although he does not find his way to religion, the act of trying and the presence of conversion as a possibility ...
42 “ terbuttal with his unique intensity and psychological penetration in the figure of Ivan Karamazov . ... 43 Ivan's “ Euclidian , " Faustian mind — as Dostoevski sees Faust's atheistic intellect - blocks out the faith his soul craves ...
In contemporary philosophy, however, the debate has petrified into a select number of entrenched and defensive strategies. This volume opens the way for a wholesale reconsideration of the problem of evil.
their existence ( before their inevitable destruction , of course ) on this side of an ideal . The Stavrogins of Dostoevsky's ... Take , for example , the critique of Christianity we find in Ivan's story about the Grand Inquisitor .
Hailed as one of the world's supreme masterpieces on the subject of death and dying, The Death of Ivan Ilyich is the story of a worldly careerist, a high court judge who has never given the inevitability of his death so much as a passing ...