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So without further ado, let me say a couple of things about the way I envision this talk.

Heresy will certainly figure in this lecture, but then to talk about Dostoevsky and theology and religion in any way

naturally will lead you to that because one might have very well argued that Dostoevsky's

own theology is somewhat radical. Certainly from a Catholic point of view. On the one hand,

there is a very robust Christology.

He is now that is certainly firm and in many ways quite orthodox.

But he also had some very peculiar features.

In my early remarks, I were well on those, such that he, instance never particularly aligned himself with the Russian

Orthodox Church.

It was noticeable in all kinds of ways that he takes a rather somewhat eccentric position

relative to the religious established church in Russia.

And he's of course fiercely anti-Catholic.

That should not be forgotten.

Although, as is pointed out to Ivan by Adyosha in that, at the end of the chapter of the Grand Inquisitor,

Iron's conception of Catholicism seems to be somewhat cartoonish,

and derived from itself a rather cartoonish conception of specifically the Jesuit order.

But let me start by saying a couple of things about Dostoevsky in relation to religion and theology more generally.

The first thing that stands out, when you read Dostoevsky and then begin to sort of sift

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