The Myth of the Grand Inquisitor is a kind of novella within the unparalleled masterpiece of Fyodor Dostoevsky “The Brothers Karamazov” (published in 1879-80), the last work and almost the spiritual testament of the great Russian writer (Book V, Chapters IV and V).

Dostoevsky dared to place in the mouth of an anarchist, a cerebral atheist and denier, Ivan Karamazov, the parable of the “Grand Inquisitor” in an interesting discussion with his brother, the religious and devout monk, Alyosha. Only he could reveal through his questioning the fraud of institutional religion, as the Papal Church appeared in Dostoevsky's eyes.

In this myth, the philosophical, psychological, anthropological, and theological perspective of Dostoevsky on the matters of the world and life emerges. After the signs and wonders, after the Christology of power, which Dostoevsky brackets until the arrest of Christ by the Grand Inquisitor, follows the description of the Demonology of papal authority that evolves in a way that adequately illuminates the judicial, dogmatic, social, and moral background of the Roman Catholic faith.

Papalism binds people to the chariot of materialism and epicurean hedonism, distorting the crystal-clear evangelical notion of freedom in Christ.

[Excerpt from the text on the back cover of the edition]