cam a22 4 4500 530052423 CHVBK 20200414193954.0 181024s2018 xxu b||| 001 0 eng|d 978-0-87580-779-9 case (IDSBB)006804576 (VAUD)991021175288002852 (OCoLC)1007312037 (EXLNZ-41BCULAUSA_NETWORK)991023499503602851 YDX ger YDX CDX SzZuIDS BS/BE A100 rda PG2990.J47 G58 2018 BR1-129 891.8 15 891.73009/351 23 891.7 15 230 882.09-3"18/19" BCUDru CLASBCUD Givens John ca. 20. Jh. (DE-588)122829565 Verfasser aut The image of Christ in Russian literature Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Bulgakov, Pasternak John Givens DeKalb, IL NIU Press [2018] xi, 272 Seiten Vladimir Nabokov complained about the number of Dostoevsky's characters "sinning their way to Jesus." In truth, Christ is an elusive figure not only in Dostoevsky's novels, but in Russian literature as a whole. The rise of the historical critical method of biblical criticism in the nineteenth century and the growth of secularism it stimulated made an earnest affirmation of Jesus in literature highly problematic. If they affirmed Jesus too directly, writers paradoxically risked diminishing him, either by deploying faith explanations that no longer persuade in an age of skepticism or by reducing Christ to a mere argument in an ideological dispute. The writers at the heart of this study understood that to reimage Christ for their age, they had to make him known through indirect, even negative ways, lest what they say about him be mistaken for cliche, doctrine, or naive apologetics. The Christology of Dostoevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Mikhail Bulgakov, and Boris Pasternak is thus apophatic because they deploy negative formulations (saying what God is not) in their writings about Jesus. Professions of atheism in Dostoevsky and Tolstoy's non-divine Jesus are but separate negative paths toward truer discernment of Christ. This first study in English of the image of Christ in Russian literature highlights the importance of apophaticism as a theological practice and a literary method in understanding the Russian Christ. It also emphasizes the importance of skepticism in Russian literary attitudes toward Jesus on the part of writers whose private crucibles of doubt produced some of the most provocative and enduring images of Christ in world literature Bulgakov, Michail 1891-1940 (DE-588)118517376 gnd Dostoevskij, Fëdor Michajlovič 1821-1881 (DE-588)118527053 gnd Pasternak, Boris Leonidovič 1890-1960 (DE-588)118591940 gnd Tolstoj, Lev Nikolaevič 1828-1910 (DE-588)11864291X gnd Jésus-Christ Dans la littérature ram Christusdarstellung (DE-588)4070009-4 gnd Literatur (DE-588)4035964-5 gnd Russisch (DE-588)4051038-4 gnd Littérature russe Thèmes, motifs ram Stoppsignal FRED nebis DS s1ru rnv IDSBB 100 1- Givens John ca. 20. Jh (DE-588)122829565 Verfasser aut VAUD 100 1- Givens John aut Metadata rights reserved vaud BK020000 XK020000 XK020000 IDSBB A100 A100 100FM UBH Bi IX 15106 NELA1001808 IDSBB DSV51 DSV01 A100 http://www.ub.unibas.ch/tox/IDSBB/006804576/PDF pdf VIEW Inhaltsverzeichnis IDSBB B400 B400 400H5 BeM RFA 87323 NELB4001809 VAUD bcud bcud USA 52280 882.09-3"18/19" 810010019