Dostoevsky, Fyodor Mikhailovich
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Dostoevsky, Fyodor Mikhailovich (1821–81). Russian novelist. In 1849, he was arrested for suspected revolutionary activity and condemned to death (or at least was taken to the scaffold and to the last moments before execution before the true sentence of four years in prison and four years as a private in the Siberian army was read out). He was released from the army in 1858. The immediate fruit of this experience was his remarkable
House of the Dead (1861). Other novels followed which display a profound understanding of the depths of the human soul.
Notes from the Underground (1864) sets rational egoism (which proffers reasons for treating others as instruments) against irrational selfishness which treats others as enemies.
Crime and Punishment (1866),
The Idiot (1868), and
The Devils (also translated as
The Possessed, 1871) led up to his great achievement,
The Brothers Karamazov (completed in 1880). With the Slavophils, Dostoevsky venerated the
Orthodox Church, and was deeply impressed by
Staretz Amvrosy whom he visited at Optina. But his sense of goodness was neither facile nor naïve. He saw human freedom as something so awesome that most people are ready to relinquish it. This is epitomized in the Legend of the Grand Inquisitor. In his speech accepting the Nobel Prize for Literature,
Solzhenitsyn quoted Dostoevsky, ‘Beauty will save the world.’ But the Church, in contrast, has continued, as Dostoevsky feared to the last that it would, on its path of authority and control.
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The flagellants of Vinzons town; (Editor's note: The following article written by Hern Zenarosa for The Saturday Mirror Magazine issue of April 14, 1962 shows how small town Holy Week practices persist through time - up to the present, he says).(Opinion & Editorial)
Newspaper article from: Manila Bulletin; 4/16/2003; 700+ words
; ...their backs, Vinzons flagellants conduct the ritual...Vinzonians that the more a flagellant gives out blood, the...that to recognize a flagellant whose head and face...be stained with the flagellant's blood is also avoided...that the blood on the flagellants' back is sin and to...
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Marr's 'The Flagellants' will go to Munich
Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; 2/13/2008; ; 378 words
; Carl von Marr's "The Flagellants" -- a wonderfully strange and incredibly large painting...returns this spring after 115 years in the United States. "The Flagellants" will remain there for three years -- well beyond the time...
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The Flagellant
Magazine article from: Parnassus : Poetry in Review; 1/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; (i.m. Percy Grainger) 1. Italian wouldn't do at all to tell his band the way they ought to feel when they played the score. Bundle it & jogtrot through these bars, he'd say: Lower notes of woggle well to the fore. Easy goes but cling it, louden lots! He'd have them lay on with a will. He'd play
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Archbishop appeals to flagellants, other Good Friday penitents.(Main News)
Newspaper article from: Manila Bulletin; 3/21/2008; 700+ words
; Byline: Leslie Ann G. Aquino Archbishop Paciano Aniceto appealed yesterday to the faithful not to make use of their devotion for tourism purposes. The San Fernando, Pampanga, archbishop particularly appealed to penitents who submit themselves to crucifixion on Good Friday, an event which draws
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The environmental debate has to be rescued from the flagellants who would cut growth
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 12/17/2007; ; 700+ words
; Last week, we saw some of the people who put "mental" into environmentalism. Important topics were discussed in Bali. That is not necessarily as absurd as it sounds. But it rapidly became so. Who popped up? A crying Dutchman in a flower-power shirt. The Flying Dutchman had better tunes. Yet it
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An eyewitness account of crucifixion
Newspaper article from: Filipino Express, The; 5/13/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...upon him, the stray flagellant suddenly turns his...twenty half-naked flagellants now lie head to foot...physical pain for these flagellants to endure, a paunchy...bleeding backs of the flagellants with a thin, yard...sight and smell of the flagellant's drawn blood had...
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Lenten rites in the Philippines.(Tourism)
Newspaper article from: Manila Bulletin; 4/8/2004; 700+ words
; ...full details. Out in the streets, flagellants reenact the torture and death of Jesus...tourists yearly is Tondo where halfnaked flagellants, wearing only trousers, had their...At the end of the procession, the flagellants jumps into the Manila Bay. As claimed...
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Painting's history as curious as the scene it depicts [Corrected 06/ 29/03]
Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; 6/27/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...Italy, crowds of self-tormenting flagellants sought to take the sins of the world...strewn hillsides of Perugia, the flagellants scourged themselves with iron-tipped...topic tell it in essays about "The Flagellants," the 13-by-25-foot oil painting...
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'Pabasa' singing starts early Lenten rites.(Main News)
Newspaper article from: Manila Bulletin; 3/18/2005; 700+ words
; ...Thursday. Out on the streets, flagellants reenact the torture and death of Jesus Christ. The tradition is the flagellants way of asking forgiveness for sins...famous for its Holy Week rites. Flagellants, wearing only trousers, have...
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Flagellation a health risk
Newspaper article from: Filipino Reporter; 4/4/2002; 391 words
; ...Health (DOH) has warned. A flagellant's wounds, if not cleaned...Good Friday, hundreds of flagellants take to the streets in cities...before his crucifixion. The flagellants use whips, rods and sticks...infection," he said. What the flagellants should also guard against...
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flagellants
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...ancient usage. Among the flagellants it was an extreme expression...church. However, the flagellant movement itself did...until c.1260 that the flagellants grew into large, organized...From the East bands of flagellants spread across Hungary...practice. Heretical flagellant sects such as ...
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flagellant
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
flagellant Religious zealot who uses flagellation, or flogging, for disciplinary...some Native American cultures, and Christianity. In most cases, flagellants have used beatings as a form of penance or purification.
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Sectarianism
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History
...predecessors. the faith of christ (flagellants) and the castrates The Faith of Christ...themselves, and so they became known as flagellants. This label was applied indiscriminately...a powerful myth that envisioned the flagellants as a dangerous, homicidal, sexually...
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flagellation
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Body
...noted to have been shed by individual flagellants during these paschal ceremonies. It...the age of fifty in good health. The flagellants' re-enactment of Christ's sacrifice...over morality and collective justice. Flagellants were rehearsing a past that continued...
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Flagellation
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology
...dramatization of the sufferings of Christ. There was an epidemic of flagellant sects in Europe during the tenth and fourteenth centuries...William M. [James Glass Bertram]. Flagellation and the Flagellants: A History of the Rod in All Continents from the Earliest...
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