Dostoevsky and the Christian Tradition

by Edited by George Pattison , Diane Oenning Thompson

• ISBN13: 9780521062954
• ISBN10: 0521062950
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-05-15
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

This collection brings together Western and Russian perspectives on the issues raised by the religious element in Dostoevsky's work. The essays cover such topics as temptation, his use of the gospels, the Russian tradition of the veneration of icons, as well as reading aloud, and dialogism. In addition to an exploration of the impact of the Christian tradition on Dostoevsky's major novels, Crime and Punishment,The Idiot and The Brothers Karamazov, there are also discussions of lesser known works such as The Landlady and A Little Boy at Christ's Christmas Tree.

Table of Contents

Notes on contributors

Acknowledgements

Notes on conventions and abbreviations

Introduction: reading Dostoevsky religiously George Pattison and Diane Oenning Thompson

Dostoevsky and the Practice of Orthodoxy

Dostoevsky and the kenotic tradition

Dostoevsky's markings in the Gospel according to

Icons in Dostoevsky's works

Problems of the biblical word in Dostoevsky's poetics

Dostoevsky and Christian Theology

Dostoevsky in the prism of the orthodox semiosphere

The categories of law and grace in Dostoevsky's poetics

The Brothers Karamazov as trinitarian theology

Reading and incarnation in Dostoevsky Eric

Reading Dostoevsky Religiously: Case Studies

Towards an iconography of Crime and Punishment

Pavel Smerdyakov and Ivan Karamazov: the problem of temptation

Beyond the will: humiliation as Christian necessity in Crime and Punishment

Freedom's dangerous dialogue: reading Dostoevsky and Kierkegaard together

Bibliography

Index

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