The second great novel I’ve listened to on my ipod this spring is Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations. Though I don’t think it matched The Brothers Karamazov‘s psychological and religious depth, I was drawn in by...
Read moreGiven Tolkien’s current fame, and the obvious quality of his work, I find this statement amazing, and very telling about the power of encouragement: “I have never had much confidence in my own work, and...
Read moreTolkien says he dislikes allegory, and his Christian faith is less apparent in The Lord of the Rings than Lewis’ is in The Chronicles of Narnia. Sometimes you hear people say that its basically a...
Read moreOkay, another quick post on That Hideous Strength. Walter Savage Landor once wrote, after quoting two lines from Milton’s Paradise Lost, “I would rather have written these two lines than all the poetry that as...
Read moreThis week I have been listening to C.S. Lewis’ That Hideous Strength, which may be my second favorite of his books, after Till We Have Faces. It starts off a bit slowly, and its perhaps...
Read moreHaving finished The Brothers Karamazov, I would say one of the most interesting themes of the book was the struggle between faith and doubt in light of the suffering in the world. In a word,...
Read moreThe following quote is part of a speech by Dmitri Karamazov to his brother Alyosha while in prison. Dmitri is a morally reckless man who is falsely accused of his father’s murder and redeemed through...
Read moreAs I continue to listen to Dostoevsky’s novel, one of main themes I am picking up on is the necessity of suffering for redemption. Redemption requires suffering because only through suffering can we arrive at...
Read moreIn 1849 Dostoevsky was arrested for being a part of a secret utopian society. After 8 months imprisonment and a mock execution, he was sentenced to 4 years of exile and hard labor in Siberia,...
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