The Freedom to Choose Life
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The Freedom to Choose Life

Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Guide to the Theology and Practice of the Art of Ministry

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  2. English
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eBook - ePub

The Freedom to Choose Life

Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Guide to the Theology and Practice of the Art of Ministry

About this book

In The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky proposes ministry as the way to resist and overcome the world's evil. He employs two plotlines to do so. The action plot concerns the events surrounding the murder of Fyodor Karamazov. All evidence points to Dmitri Karamazov. Rational, circumstantial evidence convicts him; yet the reader knows he is innocent. The ministry plot occurs in this dark context where "small acts of love" are performed by The Elder Zosima, Alyosha Karamazov, and many others. These acts of love all answer this unspoken question, "What can be said and done in Jesus' name that opens the future to new possibilities in contexts heretofore deemed closed and without hope?" Asking and answering this question is the essence of ministry, and since the question can be asked in any context, ministry is possible anywhere. Dostoevsky's unabashed antisemitism, however, undermines his brilliant analysis. The concluding chapters document how unconfessed sins like antisemitism exert a death-dealing power that undermines our cultures, our communities, and our ministries. The Freedom to Choose Life shows how ministry resists and overcomes evil by these small acts of love and by the global effects of repenting of humanity's unconfessed sins.

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Information

Publisher
Wipf and Stock
Year
2024
Print ISBN
9798385213184
9798385213191
eBook ISBN
9798385213207
Topic
Theology & Religion
Subtopic
Religious Biographies

Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Introduction
  3. Chapter 1: Opposing Evil
  4. Chapter 2: The Many Sources of Evil
  5. Chapter 3: Christian Freedom Is Ministry
  6. Chapter 4: The Elder Zosima’s Mastery of the Art of Ministry
  7. Chapter 5: Other Ministers Emerge
  8. Chapter 6: Alyosha and Dmitri’s Transgressions
  9. Chapter 7: The Church of Active Love
  10. Chapter 8: The Death-Dealing Power of Unconfessed Sin
  11. Chapter 9: Dostoevsky’s Unabashed Antisemitism
  12. A Concluding Literary and Biblical Postscript
  13. Acknowledgments
  14. Bibliography

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