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A Little Theology Can Be Dangerous

It took a while, but I finally finished plodding through Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Demons (translated as Devils in the Michael Katz edition I’m reading, also known as The Possessed). I plodded, because that’s the only pace that makes sense when tackling one of those doorstop Russian novels that can be both exhilarating and exhausting. It took 400 pages before the story started getting interesting! As much as I love Dostoevsky, this wasn’t Crime and Punishment or The Brothers Karamazov.In the end