Commentary on a text by Dostoevsky

This article by hieromonk Athanasius Jevtic offers a cross-theological reading of Dostoevsky's *Winter Notes on Summer Impressions* and an interview with Greek political scientist Costas Zouraris devoted to Nicholas Cabasilas. Through a comparative and meditative approach, the author shows that Dostoevsky highlights the dead end of the revolutionary triptych — Liberty, Equality, Fraternity — in the absence of a personal, free, and selfless love. The theological contribution of the article lies in the demonstration that authentic fraternity can neither be decreed nor institutionalized: it presupposes a Christological anthropology, rooted in the Byzantine patristic tradition, in which the Church constitutes the true social program. The article also underscores the limitations of a contemporary Orthodox thought that proclaims love without sufficiently articulating its ecclesial and political mediations.