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 exhausted. Reared in a devout Russian Orthodox home,
Dostoyevsky as ....
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