Not P but DFW: the implications of a human Christ

[Corbeau Castrum]

I think it means consequences, as in the consequences of Christ being human and thus experiencing all of nature's physical forces (i.e. being able to die). 

On Wednesday, February 11th, 2026 at 17:02, Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com> wrote:

> The following excerpt is from David Foster Wallace's *Joseph Frank's
> Dostoevsky*:
> 
> Not surprisingly, FMD’s exact beliefs are idiosyncratic and complicated,
> and Joseph Frank is thorough and clear and detailed in explaining their
> evolution through the novels’ thematics (as in, e.g., the toxic effects of
> egoistic atheism on the Russian character in Notes and C&P; the deformation
> of Russian passion by worldly Europe in The Gambler; and, in The Idiot’s
> Myshkin and The Brothers Karamazov’s Zossima, the implications of a human
> Christ subjected literally to nature’s physical forces, an idea central to
> all the fiction Dostoevsky wrote after seeing Holbein the Younger’s “Dead
> Christ” at the Basel Museum in 1867).
> 
> What does the word "implication" mean here exactly?
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