Partisanship

"I Didn't Know He Was a Heretic" - on Love and Listening

"I Didn't Know He Was a Heretic" - on Love and Listening

When the prof opened the class up for discussion on the reading, the first student to make a comment said: "I did not know Tolstoy was a heretic." The student refused to engage. He wanted to dismiss Tolstoy altogether because of particular elements of Tolstoy's theology. The professor looked stunned, almost personally insulted. And then…