Natural Communions by Gabriel R. Ricci

Author:Gabriel R. Ricci [Ricci, Gabriel R.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780367231804
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Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2019-06-10T00:00:00+00:00

The latter connection to the peasants – “the uneducated masses” whose views the author found intellectually “repugnant” but also compelling on a deeper existential level – ultimately enables him to find faith; this faith, however, is less in the peasants’ traditional Christianity than, as I will demonstrate below, in an eco-spirituality grounded in the Earth.

Perpetual Seekers: Doubt and Dogma in Anna Karenina

Tolstoy’s need, while writing the novel, to travel to Optino to “explain to the monks all the reasons why [he] cannot believe”25 is one we could imagine Levin expressing. According to Cain:

To read A Confession [Tolstoy’s autobiography] is to realise just how close Tolstoy’s experience could be to that of his central characters. The religious crisis which we see Levin undergo in Anna Karenina corresponds very closely to that which Tolstoy describes in A Confession: the sense of an absence, and of a ‘want of clearness’ in the soul, the clash between reason and an instinctive faith, the periods of acute despair, even the removal of the potential instruments of suicide, are all common to Tolstoy and Levin.26

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