An Existential Refutation of the Grand InquisitorIn The Brothers Karamazov, Dostoevsky presents two competing views on humanity and its road to salvation: father Zosima’s and Ivan Karamazov’s. Ivan presents his view to Alyosha through a poem that describes a time when Jesus Christ himself returned to the world during the Spanish inquisition, but, instead of being worshipped by the church, is thrown in prison by the Grand Inquisitor. The Inquisitor launches into an impassioned monologue, berat...