believer, made room for a most scathing critique of Christianity. Yet at the same time he affirms it in the character of Alyosha, who believes passionately in Christlike love. In answer to the question “What is Hell?” one of the characters replies, “It is the suffering of being unable to love.” This internal war between the believer and the skeptic waged within Dostoyevsky’s soul his entire life, both theologically and morally. One of Tolstoy’s friends said, “I cannot consider Dostoyevsky either