The Image of Christ in Russian Literature : : Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Bulgakov, Pasternak / / John Givens.
Vladimir Nabokov complained about the number of Dostoevsky's characters "sinning their way to Jesus." In truth, Christ is an elusive figure not only in Dostoevsky's novels, but in Russian literature as a whole. The rise of the historical critical method of biblical criticism in t...
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Givens, John, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut The Image of Christ in Russian Literature : Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Bulgakov, Pasternak / John Givens. Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2020] ©2018 1 online resource (288 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION. THE IMAGE OF CHRIST AND RUSSIAN LITERATURE -- CHAPTER ONE. THE CENTURY OF UNBELIEF -- CHAPTER TWO. CHRIST OUTSIDE THE TRUTH -- CHAPTER THREE. A NARROW ESCAPE INTO FAITH -- CHAPTER FOUR. LOVING THOSE WHO HATE YOU -- CHAPTER FIVE. "CAN THIS BE FAITH?" -- CHAPTER SIX. THE CENTURY OF BELIEF -- CHAPTER SEVEN. "KEEP IN MIND THAT JESUS DID EXIST" -- CHAPTER EIGHT. "EMPHATICALLY HUMAN, DELIBERATELY PROVINCIAL" -- CONCLUSION. POST-STALIN AND POSTMODERN CHRISTS -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Vladimir Nabokov complained about the number of Dostoevsky's characters "sinning their way to Jesus." In truth, Christ is an elusive figure not only in Dostoevsky's novels, but in Russian literature as a whole. The rise of the historical critical method of biblical criticism in the nineteenth century and the growth of secularism it stimulated made an earnest affirmation of Jesus in literature highly problematic. If they affirmed Jesus too directly, writers paradoxically risked diminishing him, either by deploying faith explanations that no longer persuade in an age of skepticism or by reducing Christ to a mere argument in an ideological dispute. The writers at the heart of this study understood that to reimage Christ for their age, they had to make him known through indirect, even negative ways, lest what they say about him be mistaken for cliché, doctrine, or naïve apologetics. The Christology of Dostoevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Mikhail Bulgakov, and Boris Pasternak is thus apophatic because they deploy negative formulations (saying what God is not) in their writings about Jesus. Professions of atheism in Dostoevsky and Tolstoy's non-divine Jesus are but separate negative paths toward truer discernment of Christ. This first study in English of the image of Christ in Russian literature highlights the importance of apophaticism as a theological practice and a literary method in understanding the Russian Christ. It also emphasizes the importance of skepticism in Russian literary attitudes toward Jesus on the part of writers whose private crucibles of doubt produced some of the most provocative and enduring images of Christ in world literature. This important study will appeal to scholars and students of Orthodox Christianity and Russian literature, as well as educated general readers interested in religion and nineteenth-century Russian novels. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022) Russian literature History and criticism. Literary Studies. Religious Studies. Soviet & East European History. RELIGION / Christianity / Orthodox. bisacsh Jesus Christ in Russian literature, Negative theology, apophaticism in Russian literature, Depictions of Christ, belief in russian and soviet literature. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018 9783110606553 print 9780875807799 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501757792 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501757792 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781501757792/original |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION. THE IMAGE OF CHRIST AND RUSSIAN LITERATURE -- CHAPTER ONE. THE CENTURY OF UNBELIEF -- CHAPTER TWO. CHRIST OUTSIDE THE TRUTH -- CHAPTER THREE. A NARROW ESCAPE INTO FAITH -- CHAPTER FOUR. LOVING THOSE WHO HATE YOU -- CHAPTER FIVE. "CAN THIS BE FAITH?" -- CHAPTER SIX. THE CENTURY OF BELIEF -- CHAPTER SEVEN. "KEEP IN MIND THAT JESUS DID EXIST" -- CHAPTER EIGHT. "EMPHATICALLY HUMAN, DELIBERATELY PROVINCIAL" -- CONCLUSION. POST-STALIN AND POSTMODERN CHRISTS -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION. THE IMAGE OF CHRIST AND RUSSIAN LITERATURE -- CHAPTER ONE. THE CENTURY OF UNBELIEF -- CHAPTER TWO. CHRIST OUTSIDE THE TRUTH -- CHAPTER THREE. A NARROW ESCAPE INTO FAITH -- CHAPTER FOUR. LOVING THOSE WHO HATE YOU -- CHAPTER FIVE. "CAN THIS BE FAITH?" -- CHAPTER SIX. THE CENTURY OF BELIEF -- CHAPTER SEVEN. "KEEP IN MIND THAT JESUS DID EXIST" -- CHAPTER EIGHT. "EMPHATICALLY HUMAN, DELIBERATELY PROVINCIAL" -- CONCLUSION. POST-STALIN AND POSTMODERN CHRISTS -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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