When a thought captures my attention, I tend to find lots of related ideas throughout the daily activities & thoughts of my life. Here is my latest example. Recently Don Miller posted about relationship rather than right belief/theology being what “it” [Christianity] is all about. My previous post made reference to this post, and I [...]

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 [...]

Earlier today I had the following stream of conversation on twitter (read bottom to top), Here is my reply. Let me first lay the context of the original statement, which is actually a stolen quote from Rowan Williams’ book. He is talking about Sonya, the character from Crime and Punishment, who Dostoevsky creates as the [...]

So in a recent post I talked about how the central that freedom has in the work of Dostoevsky. Why he sees it as being so important is that through our freedom we have to opportunity & possibility of fulfilling what it means to be human, what could be understood as the divination of man [...]

I want to try to spell out some of the ideas that Rowan Williams lays out in his chapter on the demonic in Dostoevsky’s writing. It is really interesting stuff, also is of interest following the Nightline debate of the Devil which I recently was able to watch and discuss with some folks. I’ll first [...]