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Rome

Rome enters the monastery discussion as an example in the argument over Church and State. Ivan and Father Paissy distinguish the Russian ideal from the Roman model, where the Church is accused of becoming a State. At this first horizon, Rome is not a setting but a charged historical image in the debate around Ivan's Church-State article.

V-V. The Grand Inquisitor

In The Grand Inquisitor, Rome becomes the city of Caesar's sword: the power the Inquisitor says the Church accepted in order to rule human conscience and earthly life.

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