Crime and Punishment

Christianity in Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment: An Overview Fyodor
Dostoyevsky wrote, " If someone succeded in proving to me that Christ was
outside the truth, and if, indeed, the truth was outside Christ, then I
would sooner remain with Christ than with the truth" (Frank 68). It was by
no means easy for Dostoyevsky to reach this conclusion. In Dostoyevsky's
life, one sees that of an intellectual Prodigal Son, returning to the
Father In Heaven only after all other available systems of belief have
been exhausted. Reared in a devout Russian Orthodox home, Dostoyevsky as a
young man rebe…