Exchanging Crosses
Sunday, 13 September 2009
Responsibility is at least the acknowledgment of a fractured relation between humanity—specifically each persons human soul—and the rest of creation, a fracture for which human beings have to take the blame. (165)
The decision for beliefs is clearly, for Dostoevsky, a matter of deciding for a structure of moral life authoritatively shaped by the central icon that is the narrative and presence of Jesus Christ within humanity, specifically found in the life of the Other.