Dostoevsky : language, faith, and fiction / Rowan Williams.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Williams, Rowan, 1950- author.

Series:

The making of the Christian imagination Dostoevsky

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religion in literature.

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881--Criticism and interpretation.

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor.

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881--Religion.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (305 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London, [England] : Continuum, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The current rash of books hostile to religious faith will one day be an interesting subject for some sociological analysis. But to counter such work, is a book of the profoundest kind about the nature and purpose of religious belief. Terrorism, child abuse, absent fathers and the fragmentation of the family, the secularisation and the sexualisation of culture, the future of liberal democracy, the clash of cultures and the nature of national identity - so many of the anxieties that we think of as being quintessentially features of the early twenty first century and on, are present in the work o

Contents:

Contents; Preface; Introduction; 1 Christ against the Truth?; 2 Devils: Being toward Death; 3 The Last Word? Dialogue and Recognition; 4 Exchanging Crosses: Responsibility for All; 5 Sacrilege and Revelation: The Broken Image; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Originally published: 2008.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-282-87597-3

9786612875977

1-4411-7512-1

OCLC:

682540901