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[Fyodor Dostoyevsky] |
“... If the truth really did exclude Christ, I should prefer to stay with Christ ...” |
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I believe there is nothing lovelier, deeper, more sympathetic and more perfect than the Saviour; I say to myself with jealous love that not only is there no one else like Him, but that there could be no one. I would say even more. If any one could prove to me that Christ is outside the truth, and if the truth really did exclude Christ, I should prefer to stay with Christ and not with the truth. There is in the world only one figure of absolute beauty: Christ. That infinitely lovely figure is as a matter of course an infinte marvel. —from The Brother’s Karamazov |
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| Calvin Miller on Dostoevsky | |
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Jesus is unquestionably the primary literary symbol of the West. Nowhere does Jesus more dominate novels as the promary literary symbol than in the Russian novels of the nineteenth century. Both Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky were imbued with a faith that marked their novels with a ready evidence of all they believed about Christ. While they rarely stated their faith in direct creedal statements of their own, they did freely give this office to their fictional characters. Such is the case of this inclusion from The Brothers Karamazov. —from The Book of Jesus, © Calvin Miller (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1996) |
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| What did Jesus Christ say about himself? | |