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DOSTOEVSKY AND GOD Though unfounded, several authors have found evidence of Dostoevsky's agnosticism/atheism in his work, Brothers Karamazov. Again, they fail to make a distinction between fiction and reality. What were Dostoevsky's true views on God and Christianity? His "non-fiction" works make evident a deep devotion to the Christian God and Jesus Christ. “I have often and repeatedly prayed on my knees for a pure heart, and for a pure, sinless, calm, dispassionate style.” (Lowe, 1991, 290) “People here are trying with all their might to wipe me off the face of the earth for the fact that I preach God and national roots.” (Lowe, 302) “The beautiful is the ideal; with us as in civilized Europe, have long been wavering. There is in the world only one figure of absolute beauty: Christ. That infinitely lovely figure is, as a matter of course, an infinite marvel.” (Sandoz, 1971, 42) “I have formulated my creed, wherein all is clear and holy to me . . . I believe that there is nothing holier, deeper, more sympathetic, more rational, more manly, and more perfect than the Saviour; I say to myself with jealous love that not only is there no one else like Him, but there could be no one.” (Sandoz, 46) “No religion has brought the mystery of the need for atonement or expiation to so complete, so profound, or so powerful expression as Christianity.” (Sandoz, 57) “That God none the less admits access to Himself and intimacy with Himself is not a mere matter of course; it is a grace beyond our mere power to apprehend, a prodigious paradox.” (Sandoz, 59) _______________
Sandoz, E. Political Apocalypse. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1971.
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