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Article: Dostoevsky's question.(The Public Square: A Continuing Survey of Religion, Culture, and Public Life)(Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky)
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- First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life
- Article date:
- December 1, 2008
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In 2007, as the Anglican communion was tearing itself apart, the archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, announced that he was taking a sabbatical, causing eyebrows--and in some quarters alarums--to be raised. Was he throwing in the towel? Or was he retiring to gather his strength for the Lambeth conference of 2008? Whatever else he was doing during that sabbatical, much of it spent with the Jesuits at Georgetown University, Rowan Williams was writing a book that is now published as Dostoevsky: Language, Faith, and Fiction.
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