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Remembering the End: Dostoevsky as Prophet to Modernity.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
From: Theological Studies
Date: 20021201
Author:Skira, Jaroslav Z.
By P. Travis Kroeker and Bruce K. Ward. Radical Traditions. Boulder: Westview, 2001. Pp. xii + 280. $30.
The book largely examines Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov and its "Grand Inquisitor" (reprinted as chapter 2). Kroeker and Ward argue that, for his time, Dostoevsky's religious thought and literary art were a prophetic critique of modernity and of the atheism and totalitarianism that would eventually envelope Russia and the West.
The work begins with Dostoevsky's understanding of eschatology and liturgical memory, of life being rooted in the eternal. The ...
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