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Notes from the Archbishop

NYTimes.com Ideas Blog, 12 October 2008

Literature | A reviewer says it’s a good thing the archbishop of Canterbury has written a book about Dostoyevsky. To figure out this Russian fellow, “we need a guide who combines the gifts of a literary critic and a trained theologian.” And like Dostoyevsky, the cleric, through his unruly Church of England, knows what it’s like to juggle “incompatible beliefs.” [TLS]

Oct 13, 2008, updated Mar 31, 2025