I admit that I came to Dostoyevsky more out of existential boredom than angst as a teen. But it was Dostoyevsky that captivated my imagination as an answer to Nietzsche's nihilism. So to find Plough's "reader" in that fiction, reading these selections was much like writing my own literary conversion. That's because Dostoyevsky, much like Tolstoy, captures so much of what I believe the modern world needs to experience about the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Dostoyevsky here shine the light of literary gift on the good news that we are not left to our own devices, that God in Jesus Christ has broken through our darkness and healed the brokenness in our humanity.
This book, with its various selections, highlights the suffering the world knows only too well. But it also speaks to that experience of God with humanity that breaks into the everyday suffering of that world to demonstrate the profound truth of the Gospel: We are loved.
The only thing I can recommend more than this collection is the complete works of Fyodor Dostoyevsky himself.
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