{"product_id":"dostoevsky-9780718895365","title":"Dostoevsky","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn insightful study of the theological and eschatological themes at the core of the work of the great Russian writer Fyodor Dostoevsky.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs a writer and prophet Dostoevsky was no academic theologian, yet his writings are deeply theological: his life, beliefs, even his epilepsy, all had a role in generating histheology and eschatology. Dostoevsky's novels are riven with paradoxes, are deeply dialectical, and represent a criticism of religion, offered in the service of the gospel. In this task he presented a profound understanding and portrait of humanity. Dostoevsky's novels chart the movement of the human into death: either the movement through paradox and Christlikeness into Christ's cross (a soteriology often characterized by the apophatic negation and self-denial; what we may term 'the Mark of Abel') leading to salvation and resurrection; or, conversely, the movement of those who refuse Christ's invitation to be redeemed, and continue to fall into a self-willed death and a selfgenerated hell ('the Mark of Cain'). This eschatology becomes a theological axiom which he unceasingly warned people of in his mature works. Startlingly original, stripped of all religious pretence, Dostoevsky as a prophet forewarned of the politicized humanistic delusions of the twentieth century: a prophet crying out through the wilderness.","brand":"P.H. Brazier","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49056352764155,"sku":"9780718895365","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/CoreSourceHub_a58c5c44-42ea-4b54-b3f6-e7a809ef70a9.jpg?v=1783498962","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/dostoevsky-9780718895365","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}