Dostoevsky: the dialectic of skepticism and faith.

This article deals with Dostoyevsky's rapport with God and the issues that spring from such a relation: death, resurrection, immortality, and virtue. Dostoyevsky's relation with God maintained its multi-dimensional nature: his faith in God was neither simple in its structure nor a mere ideological one; rather it remained a highly complicated formulation in a constant state of tension and dissonance. All this was very clearly and deeply present in Dostoevsky's emotional, ethical, and philosophical positions. The article attempts to mark the dimensions of this formulation in its contradictions and evolutions through a multifaceted view that combines the primary components of Dostoyevsky's ideology--as manifested in his diaries and letters that expressed many of his views towards the cause--and an analysis of his vision as conveyed through the heroes of his major novels: Raskolnikov in Crime and Punishment; Ivan, Alyosha, and Zosima in The Brothers Karamazov; Stavrogin and Tikhon in The Possessed; and Myshkin and Rogozhin in The Idiot. The article further analyzes the discrepancy and the intersection between the intellectual and the novelistic currents.