Year of publication 2008
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Duration: 290 pages (Five chapters)
Price: £16.99
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Master of Crass
Much of Dostoevskian prose asks us whether we can imagine a communal language and feeling even if we 're incapable of realising it, to grab this realization, you require boundless amounts of faith and fiction in equal measures, creating a 'perfect ' humanity system, call it a 'pious utopia ' derived from having a 'pure mind and spirit ' - albeit, humanity is fundamentally flawed, a collaboration of good and evil. In this book: Dostoevsky: Language, Faith and Fiction, Rowan Williams invites readers to embrace Dostoevskian extremes of …show more content…
Small offerings of learning that Dostoevsky took holy communion in 1848 - 49 prior to reading the new testament Natalya Fonvizina gifted him while he was in a prison camp, doesn 't remotely define a man or belief-system, furthermore, most of his known works are written post 1854, as a faithless 'agnostic atheist. ' This is not remotely a harsh critique either, I 'm only relaying the facts not relaying questions such as: 'Christ against the truth? ' which is the title of chapter one. I 've pontificated over Williams 's book: Dostoevsky: Language, Faith and Fiction, longer than it deserved - because unlike the author, Rowan Williams who categorically states his Dostoevskian wisdom is limited; yet, still writes the book, I 'll go further, and say that I compute fully with Fyodor Dostoevsky 's novel analogies, essays, and notes. In comparison, Williams claims he is altogether complex and I claim he actually simplifies language, faith and fiction to the point of a singular core - call it: 'oneness. ' To metamorphism prose from any 'oneness ' is abhorrent to intellect, no entity 'divine ' or flesh-y can manipulate or envisage what an author wholly thinks. Admittedly, only those who 're intransigently rigged to a 'wider domain stroke …show more content…
prose bordering on the irrational or matters of fact i.e. a scientific viewpoint often claim belief systems are weak or flawed. What they normal fail to do is to attend to what the religious people actually do or say. And also attend to the general question of how systems of meaning or 'world-views, ' work. Notably, Williams 's is paving way into an incoherent stance that he and anyone remotely flawed by being a believer of a higher order would be avidly sympathetic to the cause... but what cause? On a personal note, I concur my openness allows me to learn and this means reading material, those who 're 'socially diseased ' have and will again claim without heed - they cohort, I 'm looking and craving answers, seeking the almighty... why can 't I simply be fascinated with the topic? I relay, I don 't know the questions... their collective default position is silence; perhaps this is what Williams means by listening to the death of language. The 'Word from God ' or silence does not validate 'absolute freedom, ' I 'd say absolute frivolity conveys slightly greater freedom (s). Then again, having the flight of mind to do as you wish, such as, writing a book, explaining to a readership that there 's a Dostoevskian exercise in resisting the demonic and being the hero via rescuing language... the damsel in distress, this