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what point was Feodor Dostoevsky making in "The Grand Inquisitor?"?
my confusion is based upon the moment of pensiveness, which is held - as if doubt, and yet a moment of unacceptable compassion, or question passes through the Grand Inquisitor's mind as he kisses the prisoner before him, who is representative of Jesus Christ.
i thought but only for a moment of strictly visceral intuition - that he had understood -> ( the inquisitor); was a figure of the unchanging view of the church which thought for itself it had come to exist for the sake of God against heresy - and yet at that moment of kissing the prisoner representing God, as the church claimed IT did - he knew he was greatly symbolic for its' hypocrisy and surprisingly his own.
anyone else interested in putting their proverbial 2 cents in?
highly curious about your opinions - since i am rereading the book. something about the seemingly pivotal "KISS" - i had totally overlooked before.
thanks!!!
thank you c4... - that was exactly the hypocrisy of both church and grand inquisitor, which expose themselves during that - " tentative-then-think-then-continue-the-same" - pause, right after jesus is kissed by the "represented" church - manifested through grand inquisitor. a little conscience slips in for one brief "flash-in-the-pan" moment - then for the sake of the great lie which is the workings of a great evil - disguised as self-rightous-yet-false practice of faith to religion - all remains the same! having dismissed it, first time i read it - was this second time; a revelation which rang a great awakening bell toward understanding! that Dostoevsky courageously exposed so many great truths through his writings.
