1. Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov
... have less moral values than Christians. "If God does not exist, everything is permissible." No one is quite sure of who said this but it is attributed to Dostoevsky, a Russian novelist. But he is saying that religion sets the moral standards and laws for humanity. If God did not exist then there would be no need for a judicial branch ... ...
... we need to reflect on Jesus' death, to name a few. A man of broad knowledge and wide reading, Yancey introduces us to ideas about Jesus from writers such as Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, Augustine and Luther, Barth and Kierkegaard, Chesterton and Lewis. I can relate to Yancey and how he admits his own tendency to doubt, his impatience, his need to answer affirmatively the ... ...