Person
Jesus Christ
Also known as Christ, Jesus, the Heavenly King, the Messiah and Saviour, the Saviour, Our Lord, The Lover of Mankind, the Good Shepherd, the Word, Who died on the Cross, Christ risen.
Jesus Christ first appears here through the story of a Russian soldier who refuses to renounce Christianity and dies praising Christ. Smerdyakov uses that holy name as the center of a cold argument about denial, fear, and sin. The name therefore enters the household both as martyr's faith and as material for casuistry.
IV-I. Father Ferapont
As Zossima takes his last communion, Father Paissy defends the truth of Christ against the science and unbelief of the age, insisting that even those who renounce Christianity secretly follow the Christian ideal that has stood for nineteen centuries.
V-IV. Rebellion
Alyosha answers Ivan's rebellion by naming the one sinless forgiver Ivan has left out of his account of suffering.
V-V. The Grand Inquisitor
In the Grand Inquisitor poem, Christ appears silently in Seville, heals, raises a child, is arrested, and answers the Inquisitor's long accusation with a kiss.
VI-III. Conversations And Exhortations Of Father Zossima
Zossima's exhortations place Christ's image and love at the center of how people should answer guilt, servants, children, and enemies.
VII-IV. Cana Of Galilee
Alyosha's dream turns to the marriage at Cana, where Christ's first miracle is understood as a blessing of human gladness.
X-VI. Precocity
The schoolboy Kolya Krassotkin gives Christ a flippant modern reading, allowing that He was a most humane person but insisting that if He were alive today He would be found in the ranks of the revolutionists.
XI-IX. The Devil. Ivan’s Nightmare
Ivan's visitor speaks of the Word who died on the Cross and of hosannah in heaven, but the sacred language arrives through Ivan's feverish, mocking double.
XII-XIII. A Corrupter Of Thought
The defense invokes Christ's words in its appeal for mercy and in its argument about how Christian judgment should treat the accused.
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