Inspiring Faith and Creativity & Exploring the Arts through a Spiritual Lens
Click here to read the introduction, and here to read the previous section. What does the Grand Inquisitor himself believe about death? Is there only death for him too? But he cannot save himself of…
Click here to read the introduction, and here to read the previous section. The Grand Inquisitor’s criticism of Jesus is that he was not political. He should have made his kingdom of this world. He…
Click here to read the introduction, and read to read the previous section. The Grand Inquisitor says to Jesus, “you did not want to enslave man by miracle and thirsted for faith that is free,…
Click here to read the introduction, and here to read the previous section. The Grand Inquisitor points out that only a few tens of thousands are really strong enough to follow Christ. The rest, the…
Click here to read the introduction, and here to read the previous section. The Grand Inquisitor thinks that what matters is earthly happiness, but that Christ’s message does not bring happiness to this world. This…
Click here to read the introduction, and here to read the previous chapter. Each of Dostoevsky’s final five novels is long. They are long in terms of the number of pages, but not only long…
Click here to read the introduction, and here to read the previous chapter. I first read Dostoevsky’s Demons (AKA The Possessed) in English and didn’t much like it. If I had not later learned Russian,…
Click here to read the introduction, and here to read the previous chapter. In Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment, Raskolnikov gets into a discussion with Porfiry, the police investigator, about an article Raskolnikov wrote for a…
Click here to read the introduction, and here to read the previous chapter. When I first read The Brothers Karamazov, there were chapters that I read quickly and without much thought. Either they were to…
Click here to read the introduction, and here to read the previous chapter. Schopenhauer writes somewhere in The World as Will and Representation that music ought not to represent. It is many years ago that…
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