Flaubert’s Fictional Faith
Since doubt was carried into religion through “Christian existentialism,” sincere religious experience “has seemed possible only in the tension between doubt and belief, in torturing one’s beliefs…
The Apocalypse of Beatitude: Modern Gnosticism and Ancient Faith in Dostoevsky’s The Possessed
Prelude: Gnosticism Ancient and Modern Eric Voegelin’s use of the phrase “modern gnosticism” complicates the quarrel between the ancients and the moderns in that the phrase suggests…