The problem of atheism in Dostoevsky's work
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This article by Paul Evdokimov constitutes an in-depth and systematic study of the problem of atheism in Dostoevsky's work, approached through a method that is simultaneously literary, philosophical, and theological. The author shows that the Dostoevskian conception of faith — rooted in Eastern patristic gnoseology, the hesychast tradition, and apophatic theology — determines a radical critique of atheism, presented not as a coherent negation of God, but as a spiritual pathology leading to nihilism and totalitarianism. The theological contribution of the article lies in the illumination of Dostoevsky's iconographic method, particularly in the *Legend of the Grand Inquisitor*, and in the articulation between divine kenosis, human freedom, and deification, inherited from the Greek Fathers, as a response to the dead ends of atheistic humanism and autonomous ethics.
This article has not been translated yet — it is available in its French version here.
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