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Criticism of dogmatic theology
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Leo Tolstoy
8,680 books29.9k followersLev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (Russian: Лев Николаевич Толстой; most appropriately used Liev Tolstoy; commonly Leo Tolstoy in Anglophone countries) was a Russian writer who primarily wrote novels and short stories. Later in life, he also wrote plays and essays. His two most famous works, the novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina, are acknowledged as two of the greatest novels of all time and a pinnacle of realist fiction. Many consider Tolstoy to have been one of the world's greatest novelists. Tolstoy is equally known for his complicated and paradoxical persona and for his extreme moralistic and ascetic views, which he adopted after a moral crisis and spiritual awakening in the 1870s, after which he also became noted as a moral thinker and social reformer.
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 anarcho-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 Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr.
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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 anarcho-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 Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr.
See also:
French → Léon Tolstoï
Spanish → León Tolstói
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September 15, 2015
The book was really good. The only problem I had with it, is that I felt sometimes that Tolstoy was not ready to understand some simple concepts or ideas driven by his feelings of anger and jealousy over what he sees as the loss of Christ's teachings.
I even felt that he was writing the book while reading about theology (I'm not sure this is true of course), but I got this feeling because of the change in his style and the change in his emotions though the book. And starting by analyzing every little detail and mentioning everything to ending up with just mentioned some parts what they consists of and why it wouldn't make sense to him, all that in only a few sentences. Probably because he was already starting to lose his temper.
I still have to say it's not an easy book to read, if you're not really interested in theology.
And I really had trouble to find any copy of this book. I even turned out reading a very poor one. But it was worth it.
I even felt that he was writing the book while reading about theology (I'm not sure this is true of course), but I got this feeling because of the change in his style and the change in his emotions though the book. And starting by analyzing every little detail and mentioning everything to ending up with just mentioned some parts what they consists of and why it wouldn't make sense to him, all that in only a few sentences. Probably because he was already starting to lose his temper.
I still have to say it's not an easy book to read, if you're not really interested in theology.
And I really had trouble to find any copy of this book. I even turned out reading a very poor one. But it was worth it.
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