Category Archives: Fall of man

Lecture by Steenberg: “Fallen man or exiled son?”

Posted on March 7, 2011 by

Here is video of an address given by Revd. Prof. M.C. Steenberg, now Hieromonk Irenei.  The title of the talk is “Fallen man or exiled son?  Voices from antiquity on ‘original sin’ in the 21st Century.”  It’s just under an … Continue reading →

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Irenaeus on the Fall

Posted on March 7, 2011 by

[This is something I posted yesterday at Arts & Faith.  Given how often I've written here about Shestov, and the topic of the Fall, it's clearly relevant here too.  It also represents a shift in my thinking.] I just borrowed … Continue reading →

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Shestov on cupiditas scientiae (lust for knowledge)

Posted on February 17, 2011 by

[This is a slightly revised version of something I posted yesterday at Arts & Faith.  Given how often I've written here about Shestov, it's clearly relevant here too.  It's in the context of a question I got as to the … Continue reading →

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A “basis” argument for Shestov’s interpretation of the Fall

Posted on February 17, 2011 by

[This is a slightly revised version of something I posted several days ago at Arts & Faith.  Given how often I've written here about Shestov, it's clearly relevant here too.  The context was a comment I received, to the effect … Continue reading →

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Some postings elsewhere

Posted on February 15, 2011 by

I’ve been busy posting elsewhere the past few days, but the content is highly relevant here as well, and so I’ll link to it, here, here, and here (my moniker at the first two links is tenpenny).

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The Fall of Man and the Foundations of Science

Posted on September 26, 2010 by

The subject line for this entry is the title of a book by Peter Harrison (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007).  In this book and in two earlier books, The Bible, Protestantism, and the Rise of Natural Science (1998) and ‘Religion’ … Continue reading →

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Dostoevsky, on the Fall: a literary interpretation

Posted on September 21, 2010 by

Robin Feuer Miller is Edytha Macy Gross Professor of Humanities at Brandeis University and teaches Russian and European literature of the nineteenth century.  She is a second-generation scholar of Russian literature who specializes in Dostoevsky (her mother, Kathryn B. Feuer, … Continue reading →

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Dostoevsky, on the Fall: the story ends; Shestov’s interpretation of it

Posted on September 15, 2010 by

The point in the text where we left off in the last entry isn’t the end of Dostoevsky’s story.  In the morning, the ridiculous man awakes from his “dream” a changed man.  The sight of the revolver he had wanted … Continue reading →

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Dostoevsky, on the Fall: “I . . . corrupted them all!”

Posted on September 10, 2010 by

[From Fyodor Dostoevsky's "The Dream of a Ridiculous Man," The Eternal Husband and Other Stories (New York: Bantam Books, 1997), translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, continuing on p. 295, with section V . . .] V Yes, yes, … Continue reading →

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Dostoevsky, on the Fall: “The people of that happy earth”

Posted on September 10, 2010 by

[From Fyodor Dostoevsky's "The Dream of a Ridiculous Man," The Eternal Husband and Other Stories (New York: Bantam Books, 1997), translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, starting on p. 289, near the end of section III . . .] … Continue reading →

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