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The crisis Dostoevsky explored in nineteenth-century Russia’s belated and vexed encounter with Europe foreshadows the critical confrontations of our own time, as we face the decline of traditional religious, political, and epistemological authority while lost in a fog of competing claims about scientific determinism, groundless freedom, and the latest fashionable ideology. Rene Girard explores all of this in a meditation based on Dostoevsky’s Legend of the Grand Inquisitor.
You can find it here:
payingattentiontothesky.com/2010/04/07/rene-girard-on-dostoevsky%e2%80%99s-legend-of-the-grand-inquisitor/
And look to the category “Understanding Dostoevsky” for more essays (6) on this most Christian writer in classical literature.
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The crisis Dostoevsky explored in nineteenth-century Russia’s belated and vexed encounter with Europe foreshadows the critical confrontations of our own time, as we face the decline of traditional religious, political, and epistemological authority while lost in a fog of competing claims about scientific determinism, groundless freedom, and the latest fashionable ideology. Rene Girard explores all of this in a meditation based on Dostoevsky’s Legend of the Grand Inquisitor.
You can find it here:
payingattentiontothesky.com/2010/04/07/rene-girard-on-dostoevsky%e2%80%99s-legend-of-the-grand-inquisitor/
And look to the category “Understanding Dostoevsky” for more essays (6) on this most Christian writer in classical literature.
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