The Grand Inquisitor

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

• Novel
• Book language: English
• 24 pages

The Grand Inquisitor is a chapter from Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel The Brothers Karamazov, often read as a standalone philosophical parable. In it, Ivan Karamazov recounts a prose poem in which Christ returns to Seville during the Spanish Inquisition and is arrested. The Grand Inquisitor then speaks about freedom, faith, miracle, mystery, and authority, inviting reflection on conscience and belief.

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