Dostoyevsky is to me both the greatest novelist, as such, and the
greatest Christian storyteller, in particular, of all time. His plots
and characters pinpoint the sublimity, perversity, meanness, and misery
of fallen human adulthood in an archetypal way matched only by Aeschylus
and Shakespeare, while his dramatic vision of God’s amazing grace and
of the agonies, Christ’s and ours, that accompany salvation, has a range
and depth that only Dante and Bunyan come anywhere near. . . . [H]is
constant theme is the nightmare quality of unredeemed existence and the
heartbreaking glory of the incarnation, whereby all human hurts came to
find their place in the living and dying of Christ the risen Redeemer.
J. I. Packer
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