Cuál es mi fe: La iglesia y el estado (Ensayo)

by Leo Tolstoy, Léon Tolstoï

“Hace cinco años creí en la doctrina de Jesucristo y, de pronto, varió toda mi dejé de desear lo que antes deseaba y empecé a desear lo que hasta entonces no había deseado. Lo que antes me parecía bueno, antojóseme malo, y lo que tuve por malo, lo consideré bueno. Me ocurrió lo que acontece al hombre que, comprendiendo de pronto que el asunto porque dejó su casa no merecía hacerlo, vuelve a todo lo que antes tenía a su derecha, lo encuentra a la izquierda, y todo lo que a la izquierda estaba, lo halla a su diestra; el deseo primitivo de alejarse del hogar se trocó en deseo de acercarse cuanto antes a él.”

240 pages, Paperback

Published December 14, 2020

About the author

Lev 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.