That same populace, like one man, now bows its head to the ground before the old Inquisitor, who blesses it and slowly moves onward. The guards conduct their prisoner to the ancient building …

Jesus returns to Earth during the Spanish Inquisition and is arrested. The Grand Inquisitor visits him in his cell to tell him that he is no longer needed on Earth. The Church, which is now allied …

Inquisitor claim to have been the “real stupendous miracle?” How do the questions (“a real stupendous miracle”) asked by “the wise and dr ad Spirit” sum up the subsequent history of …

Larissa Volokhonsky [In Dostoyevsky’s novel The Brothers Karamazov, Ivan and Alyosha are brothers; Ivan questions the possibility of a personal, benevolent God, and Alyo. ha is a novice …

A robust and readable text, Gui’s guide presents stark portraits of the various sects, warns the inquisitor against the duplicity of heretics, and shows how they can best be recognised and …

Dostoevsky's Grand Inquisitor sees that once man thinks himself capable of lifting himself to God, of arriving, by techniques of asceticism or prayer, at having power over God Himself, he is "in …

We are indebted to the Constance Garnet and Ralph E. Matlaw translations of The Brothers Karamazov and The Grand Inquisitor, respectively. –G.G. The Grand Inquisitor was developed …