Raskolnikov and God

[CassioBr]

Simple question that is bothering me since i finished Crime and Punishment...

How Religion and god can re-establish the order on a disturbed human psyche !?
like on raskolnikov's case.

[NoonDaySun]

What do you mean? Are you asking how religion could rehabilitate a murderer?

[CassioBr]

Yeah that's it, but i mean a person destroyed by guilt and the feeling that he did something very "wrong" not only muderers

[doubletrouble]

I was reading in an introduction to FD's "Grand Inquisitor" this quote ..." Dostoevsky's belief that it is only by passing through the dark night of the soul and embracing suffering that one can come into God's grace and so become fully human...."
So deep feelings of guilt is the suffering necessary to some day "see the light" of God's grace.

[Adam Linton]

I think that the pivotal clue--from Dostoevsky's perspective--must be found in his selection of the passage that Sofia reads to Raskolnikov:  the raising of Lazarus from death (John 11).