Izvestiya of Saratov University.
ISSN 1819-7671 (Print)
ISSN 2542-1948 (Online)


man’s being

The Image of the Grand Inquisitor in Religious Philosophy of K. Barth

The article is about problem of man’s being in the situation of spiritual and moral values crisis. This crisis leads to appearance of the fenomenon of Grand Inquisitor. The image of Grand Inquisitor had been created by F.M. Dostoevsky and in theology of K. Barth it became the symbol of situation of world, in which God’s death was proclaimed. Therefore Barth claimed that humanity had to do everything to avoid spiritual and cultural catastrophe, to which Grand Inquisitor could lead humanity.