Dostoevskii and the Book of Job
The Struggle to Find Faith
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3941616 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Vanessa Rampton (0000-0003-4445-8024, King's College, UK,, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 203-217 |
| Publication date | 2010-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0008-4298 • E-ISSN: 2042-0587 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0008429810362307 |
| OpenAlex | W1967931655 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 14 |
The book of Job is essential for understanding Dostoevskii's art, because of the similarity of the questions the authors engage with and the way their texts are constructed. However, ambiguities in the book of Job itself as well as disagreements about the presentation of faith and doubt in Dostoevskii's fiction have made the discussion of precisely how the book of Job influenced Dostoevskii remarkably wide-ranging. In this article I argue for complementing the literary analysis of Dostoevskii's novels with the insights of recent criticism of the book of Job. According to this reading, Job does not provide Dostoevskii with a cognitive answer to the question of why the innocent suffer or explain the existence of evil in the world, but rather acts as a confirmation that faith is a process in which doubt plays a crucial and ongoing role
Art · Criticism · Epistemology · Faith · Linguistics · Literature · Presentation (obstetrics · Reading (process · Similarity (geometry · Sociology · Computer Science · Philosophy · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism · Psychology · Religious, Philosophical, and Educational Studies · Russian Literature and Bakhtin Studies
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,17 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2020 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |