“Faith, for Dostoevsky...”

Stephen West, Philosophize This podcast ep. 220

Faith, for Dostoevsky, was a struggle, constant struggle. It was a difficult engagement with the sometimes deeply flawed institutions and scripture that we inherit as people. But this was nonetheless a struggle to him that needed to go on if someone ever wanted a deeper communion with God and their own being. And if there is ever anyone who is born into this world that is actually trying to do that in good faith, religion he thinks will just be a part of that process.