Transcription of The Grand Inquisitor - Stephen Hicks
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The Grand Inquisitor By Fyodor Dostoyevsky From The Brothers Karamazov (1880, ) Translated from the Russian by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky [In Dostoyevsky s novel The Brothers Karamazov, Ivan and Alyosha are brothers; Ivan questions the possibility of a personal, benevolent God, and Alyosha is a novice monk. Aside from this background knowledge, the following parable Ivan tells Alyosha is self-contained.] But here, too, it s impossible to do without a preface, a literary preface, that is pah! Ivan laughed, and what sort of writer am I! You see, my action takes place in the sixteenth century, and back then by the way, you must have learned this in school back then it was customary in poetic works to bring higher powers down to earth. I don t need to mention Dante. In France, court clerks, as well as monks in the monasteries, gave whole performances in which they brought the Madonna, angels, saints, Christ, and God himself on stage.
heaven: Believe what the heart tells you, For heaven offers no pledge.6 Only faith in what the heart tells you! True, there were also many miracles then. There were saints who performed miraculous healings; to some righteous men, according to their biographies, the Queen of Heaven herself came down. But the devil
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