The Grand Inquisitor - a psycho-historical dialectics of a rebeled follower

Abstract

In th? contribution, we will deal with an immanent textual analysis of the dynamics of the relationship between the Grand Inquisitor and Jesus in Karamazov Brothers. We will be primarily interested in the problem of the ironical dialectics that reverses the relationship between the originator of Christianity, the God Man, and His historical successor, the Church, so that the latter, strictly formally observerd, following the ultimate goal set by Jesus, ie. God Himself - reaches the very opposite side, obeying totally contrary principles. The matrix by which we will investigate this problem is the question of the author?s/establisher?s right for disposition of the sense, that is, the historical continuance of his work, to which the Inquisitor refers in his ingenious defense of his initially crypto-apostate, and finally fully apostate position.