Dostoevsky: Language, Faith and Fiction

ISBN-13: 9781441183880 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 304 str.

UK) Cambridge Rowan Williams (Magdalene College

Opis

This is an extraordinary book, which through the lens of Dostoevsky's novels enables the reader to consider the nature of God in the 21st century - a societal landscape fraught with tensions and social inequalities.

Recenzje

"The Archbishop of Canterbury has written a book on Dostoevsky which illuminates the real operations of religion in human minds.... We need a guide who combines the gifts of a literary critic and a trained theologian to work out how far the novels of Dostoevsky can be used as vehicles for such explorations. We also need a guide who is deeply versed in the ethos and spiritual traditions of the Russian Orthodox Church to place Dostoevsky, and the tormented exchanges of his characters, within some intelligible historical framework. Luckily the Archbishop of Canterbury combines all these qualities, and more" A. N. Wilson, Times Literary Supplement

Spis treści

PrefaceIntroduction1. Christ Against the Truth2. Devils3. The Last Word? Dialogue and Recognition4. Exchanging Crosses5. Sacrilege and Revelation:Thje Broken ImageConclusionBibliography

O autorze

Rowan Williams is a former Archbishop of Canterbury and was until 2020 Master of Magdalene College at the University of Cambridge.He is the author of many books, including Looking East in Winter, Holy Living, and The Edge of Words, published by Bloomsbury Continuum.He lives in Cardiff and continues to broadcast, preach and lecture internationally. In 2022, he gave the second of the BBC's centenary Reith Lectures.