Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Abbreviations -- Preface -- Part I Method -- Chapter One The Polyphonic Novel -- 1.1 Introduction. 'The Man in Man' and the Heart -- 1.2 Polyphony as Genre of Dostoevsky's Novels (Bakhtin) -- 1.3 The Place of the Idea in the Polyphonic Novel -- 1.4 Dialogue within the Polyphonic Novel as a Condition for Exposing the Truth -- 1.5 The Four Entities: Living Person, Author, Narrator, Hero -- 1.6 The Relation between Author, Narrator, and Characters in the Polyphonic Novel -- Chapter Two Kaleidoscope -- 2.1 The Two Types of Reader of the Polyphonic Novel -- The Life of the Text in 'Great Time' -- 2.2 The Relation between Dostoevsky's Ego Documents and the Polyphonic Novels -- Part II The Roots of Polyphony, or: 'How do you Believe?' Dostoevsky's Religious Conceptions in the Ego Documents -- Chapter Three Introduction -- Chapter Four The Rebirth of Religious Convictions -- 4.1 Dostoevsky's Youth -- 4.2 The Periodisation of Dostoevsky's Faith -- 4.3 The Meaning of Siberia for the Periodisation of Dostoevsky's Faith -- 4.4 Doubt and Constants of Faith. Christ as the Truth -- Chapter Five 'Masha is Lying on the Table' -- 5.1 Introduction. The Text -- 5.2 The Scientific-Ethical Problem of the Ego Documents -- The Lacunae -- 5.3 Discussion of the Text -- 5.4 The Form of "the 1864 Entry" in Relation to Other Genres -- Chapter Six 'How Do You Believe?' Philosophically -- 6.1 Introduction. 'A Philosophical Deist' -- 6.2 Dostoevsky and Kant -- Chapter Seven 'How Do You Believe?' Theologically -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 The Conception of God in Connection with Christology and Ethics -- 7.3 Christ as God and Man in Dostoevsky's Conception -- 7.4 The Body of Christ in the Grave, Resurrection, and Salvation -- 7.5 Transfiguration into the 'I of Christ' in Relation to the Thought of A.S. Khomyakov.

7.6 Transfiguration into the 'I of Christ' in Relation to the Doctrine of Theosis and the Doctrine of the Pervasion of Creation by Divine Energies -- 7.7 Dostoevsky's Ego Documents in the Light of Theosis and the Unity of Creation -- 7.8 The Ethics of Neighbourly Love and the Immortality of the Soul -- 7.9 Neighbourly Love and the Coincidence of God and Immortality in "Unfounded Assertions", the Correspondence with A. Kovner and N. Ozmidov. The Hidden Personal Message -- 7.10 Realism and the Hidden Message -- 7.11 Dostoevsky's Ideology -- 7.12 General and Contemporary History in an Eschatological Perspective in "Socialism and Christianity" -- 7.13 Dostoevsky's Chiliasm -- 7.14 The 'Apocalyptic' and the 'Rose-Coloured' Christianity of Dostoevsky -- 7.15 Belief in Literal Resurrection from the Dead.Dostoevsky and N.F. Fedorov -- 7.16 Freedom in the Light of Sin -- Chapter Eight Conclusion -- Part III Dostoevsky and Early Dialectical Theology -- Chapter Nine Introduction to the Theme "Dostoevsky and Early Dialectical Theology" -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 State of Research -- 9.3 Dostoevsky Reception and Translations in the German-Speaking World -- Chapter Ten Dostoevsky in the Correspondence between Barth and Thurneysen -- 10.1 The Character of the Correspondence -- 10.2 Crime and Punishment in 1915 and Barth's Interest in Dostoevsky in 1919-1920 -- 10.3 Thurneysen as Dostoevsky Expert -- 10.4 Conclusion -- Chapter Eleven Thurneysen's Dostojewski -- 11.1 "Was ist das: der Mensch?" and Other Central Themes in Thurneysen's Dostojewski -- 11.2 Demarcations -- 11.3 Rodion Raskolnikoff -- 11.4 The Brothers Karamazov -- 11.5 The Idiot -- 11.6 Part Three of Dostojewski -- 11.7 Eschatology and the Drunkard Marmeladov -- 11.8 Attack on Religion and the Church in the 'Poem' about the Grand Inquisitor -- 11.9 Ivan Karamazov.

11.10 A 'Dialectical Turn' in Ivan's Speech: His Atheism -- 11.11 The Creed of Ivan Karamazov -- 11.12 'Ivan Karamazov is the Grand Inquisitor' and Тherefore the Devil -- 11.13 A Kaleidoscopic Twist. Thurneysen's View of Love in the Teaching of Starets Zosima -- 11.14 Thurneysen's View of the Soteriology of Starets Zosima -- 11.15 Active Love in the Doctrine of Starets Zosima -- 11.16 Conclusion in the Light of the Reception of Thurneysen's Dostojewski -- Chapter Twelve Dostoevsky in Römerbrief II Explained in the Light of the Briefwechsel and Thurneysen's Commentaries -- 12.1 Introduction -- 12.2 The Cooling of Barth's and Thurneysen's Interest in Dostoevsky -- 12.3 By Thurneysen? -- 12.4 'I have Read Your Proofs' -- 12.5 Ivan Karamazov in Barth's Commentary on Rom. 8:17and 18 and in Thurneysen's Remark on Rom. 8:18 -- 12.6 Theodicy in Rom. 5:3-5 -- 12.7 The Polyphony of The Brothers Karamazov in the Context of Römerbrief II: Zosima -- 12.8 The Grand Inquisitor in Römerbrief II -- 12.9 Römerbrief II and Marmeladov -- 12.10 Existential Attitude in Römerbrief II -- 12.11 'God's Viewpoint' -- 12.12 The Problems of Early Dialectical Theology in Present-Day Barth Studies -- 12.13 In Conclusion -- Archive Material -- Bibliography -- Index.