Essay Archive - Christianity in Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment: An Overview
Christianity in Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment: An Overview
Fyodor Dostoyevsky wrote, “ If someone succeded in proving to me that
Christ was outside the truth, and if, indeed, the truth was outside Christ, then
I would sooner remain with Christ than with the truth” (Frank 68). It was by no
means easy for Dostoyevsky to reach this conclusion. In Dostoyevsky's life, one
sees that of an intellectual Prodigal Son, returning to the Father In Heaven
only after all other available systems of belief have been ....
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