[nickcarraway]

Interesting, but I think the article is a little off on some points. Has there ever been a great writer who was more conservative than Dostoevsky? The only one I could think of in that class is Austen.

I agree with this:

But equally, only the insensitive could fail to see that it is essential to read the novels as narratives in which ideas repellent to Dostoevsky are given freedom to breathe. Indeed, in one of his finest chapters, Williams argues that this is central to Dostoevsky’s entire purpose as a writer, and as a religious thinker.

[ConservativeDude]

Agreed.

The rub comes b/c sometimes those who have repellant views speak very persuasively. If you read these portions in isolation, you might think the revolutionaries and the atheists “win”.

Personally I have no doubt that Dostoevsky knew Christ.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

It is too bad that Williams does not retire as Archbishop and stick to literary criticism.