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 …

The Inquisitor, close to death at ninety years of age, stands near the end of Roman Catholic civilization in the West, and at the beginning of the modern quest for a new order.

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 …

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 …

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 …

Suddenly He rises; slowly and silently approaching the Inquisitor, He bends towards him and softly kisses the bloodless, four-score and-ten-year-old lips. That is all the answer. The Grand …

In the pitch darkness the iron door of the prison is suddenly opened and the Grand Inquisitor himself comes in with a light in his hand. He is alone; the door is closed at once behind him.