S9 Ep941: The Brothers Karamazov (and Other Things): Tom Velasco
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🗓️ 27 January 2022
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Summary
Fyodor Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov has been hailed as one of the greatest novels of all time. I just got done reading the book and have been mulling over its multilayered meaning ever since. So I invited my friend Tom Velasco to come on the show to talk about. Tom has read the book at least 10 times (which, at 776 pages is not an easy feat) and has been teaching the book to highschool students at The Ambrose School where he’s been teaching for the last 22 years.
In this lengthy podcast, we talk a lot about the book including its background, characters, plot, and its philosophical and theological themes, especially the problem of evil, free, suffering, and the nature of belief. This leads to many philosophical and cultural tangents which we don’t shy away from.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey friends, welcome back to another episode of Theology in the Rock. |
| 0:02.8 | If you have not registered yet for the Theology in Rock Conference here in Boise |
| 0:06.4 | and late March or the April, then please do so ASAP, pressensprickle.com, |
| 0:10.8 | all the info is on my website or in the show notes. |
| 0:14.0 | You will want to register sooner than later because space is filling up. |
| 0:17.8 | My guest today on the podcast is Tom Velasco, Tom teaches at a local Christian high school, |
| 0:23.4 | like a classical Christian education high school place. |
| 0:26.4 | So kids are super smart and they read books like The Brothers Care Missile |
| 0:31.3 | in their senior year, which is insane because the book is 776 pages of pretty dense 19th century |
| 0:37.2 | Russian literature stuff. It's really a heavy book. |
| 0:41.8 | This is kind of a different kind of podcast. |
| 0:43.3 | Like I just read the book just finished a couple of weeks ago and I don't know. |
| 0:49.0 | I'm kind of mesmerized by the book. |
| 0:51.7 | Wasn't the easiest read. There were parts that were hard to get through. |
| 0:53.7 | There are other parts that were like, man, I can't, I just can't stop reading. |
| 0:57.0 | This is so engaging. |
| 0:58.6 | And the book is so incredibly thoughtful and there's so many layers and layers and layers to it. |
| 1:04.5 | I mean, it's hailed. It's one of the great novels of all time. |
| 1:07.2 | So I do want to give a spoiler alert. |
| 1:10.0 | We do talk about all kinds of stuff in the book that we are going to spoil. |
| 1:14.8 | So if you have not read the book, then and you don't want it to be spoiled, then you might |
| 1:18.9 | want to change the channel. But I mean, you've had over a hundred for the years to read it. |
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