[Gutenberg 8578] • The Grand Inquisitor

[Gutenberg 8578] • The Grand Inquisitor
Authors
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
Publisher
Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.
Tags
jesus christ -- fiction , christian fiction , classics , philosophy
ISBN
9781599869537
Date
1879-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
Size
0.05 MB
Lang
en
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The Grand Inquisitor is a section from The Brothers Karamazov, which is a literary work by Russian author/philosopher Fyodor Dostoevsky. The central character in this work is a Grand Inquisitor who arrests Jesus. A Grand Inquisitor, or Inquisitor Generalis in German is the individual who leads an Inquisition, just like Spanish Dominican Tomas de Torquemada who was the official in charge of the Spanish Inquisition.