Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky
Great thoughts on grace and the Gospel through the eyes of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky. Kudos to the writer Tim Shey for his great depth of thoughts on these two writers and their stories. Worthy read.
Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910
Dreams from the LORD 2007-2010
16 August 2010
An excerpt from The Jesus I Never Knew by Philip Yancey:
Pages 140-142: “A.N. Wilson, a biographer of Tolstoy, remarks that Tolstoy suffered from a ‘fundamental theological inability to understand the Incarnation. His religion was ultimately a thing of Law rather than of Grace, a scheme for human betterment rather than a vision of God penetrating a fallen world.’ With crystalline clarity Tolstoy could see his own inadequacy in the light of God’s Ideal. But he could not take the further step of trusting God’s grace to overcome that inadequacy.
“Shortly after reading Tolstoy I discovered his countryman Fyodor Dostoyevsky. These two, the most famous and accomplished of all Russian writers, lived and worked during the same period of history. Oddly, they never met, and perhaps it was just as well—they were opposites in every way. Where Tolstoy wrote…
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