The Dream of a Ridiculous Superman: Dostoevsky's Demons & the Problem of a Christendom without Christ - Sat. Breakout

By Fr John Strickland


The title comes from a chapter section of my most recent book, The Age of Nihilism. We’ll focus on the novelist’s critique of secularism and atheism and introduce Nietzsche as a foil (even though, amazingly, the former never read the latter). Discussion will be based on the novel’s censored chapter “Stavrogin’s Confession.” Click here for access to this chapter. Here is a link to the section we’ll focus on in this discussion.


Presentation at 11:30am on Saturday, January 14 in St George Cathedral Fellowship Hall

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