Posted on: February 15th, 2010 Lent: Language, Faith & Fiction
How is the life of faith to be imagined?
What kind of life is able to resist the diabolical?
How can what we encounter be a vehicle for the holy?
How does faith inform what it is to write fiction?
What is the relationship / interdependence of human freedom, human language and human imagination?
These and many other questions will be meditated upon this year in My Lenten reading: Rowan Williams’ Dostoevsky: Language, Faith & Fiction.
Many folks over the decades have fancied Dostoevsky as some kind of agnostic, but Rowan is stressing that his intention is rather to imagine the conditions in which faith is possible and coherent in this world of radical failure, suffering, and desolation.
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