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Christianity in Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment: An Overview


Fyodor Dostoyevsky wrote, " If someone succeeded
in proving to me that
Christ was outside the truth, and if, indeed, the truth was outside Christ, then
I would sooner remain with Christ than with the truth" (Frank 68). It was by no
means easy for Dostoyevsky to reach this conclusion. In Dostoyevsky's life, one
sees that of an intellectual Prodigal Son, returning to the Father In Heaven
only after all other available systems of belief have been exhausted. Reared in
a devout Russian Orthodox home, Dostoyevsky as a young man rebelled against his
upbringing and embraced the anarchist (and atheistic) philosophies of the
intelligentsia, radical students and middle class intellectuals violently
opposed to the status quo in Nineteenth-Century Russia (Morsm 50). Dostoyevsky
revolutionary stirrings were not unnoticed by the Tsar's secret police, and, in
1849, Dostoyevsky was sentenced to a mock execution followed by......

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