The Kingdom of God is Within You: Christianity not as a Mystic Religion but as a New Theory of Life - Softcover

Tolstoy, Leo

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1533125945 ISBN 13: 9781533125941

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016

Synopsis

His literal interpretation of the ethical teachings of Jesus, centering on the Sermon on the Mount, caused him to become a fervent Christian anarchist and pacifist. Tolstoy's ideas on nonviolent resistance, expressed in such works as The Kingdom of God Is Within You, were to have a profound impact on such pivotal 20th-century figures as Mohatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr., and James Bevel.

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Leo Tolstoy was a Russian writer widely regarded as among the greatest of novelists. His masterpieces War and Peace and Anna Karenina represent in their scope, breadth and vivid depiction of 19th-century Russian life and attitudes, the peak of realist fiction. Tolstoy's further talents as essayist, dramatist, and educational reformer made him the most influential member of the aristocratic Tolstoy family. His literal interpretation of the ethical teachings of Jesus, centering on the Sermon on the Mount, caused him in later life to become a fervent Christian anarchist and pacifist. His ideas on nonviolent resistance, expressed in such works as The Kingdom of God Is Within You, were to have a profound impact on such pivotal twentieth-century figures as Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr.

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1533125945
• ISBN 13: 9781533125941
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 238
• Editor: Jonson Will