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Vladimir Chertkov (left) with Leo Tolstoy (right) The Tolstoyan movement is a social movement based on the philosophical and religious views of Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910). Tolstoy's views were formed by rigorous study of the ministry of Jesus, particularly the Sermon on the Mount.
Toggle Ethical, political and religious beliefs subsection. 6.1 Schopenhauer. 6.2 Christianity. ... 1910), [2] usually referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy, was a ...
Tolstoy responded and the two continued a correspondence until Tolstoy's death a year later in 1910. The letters concern practical and theological applications of nonviolence, as well as Gandhi's wishes for Tolstoy's health. Tolstoy's last letter to Gandhi "was one of the last, if not the last, writings from his pen." [6] [7]
The account presented in Tolstoy's gospel is also notable in its sharp contrast with the contemporaneous views of the Russian Orthodox Church. Tolstoy was a fierce critic of the Russian Orthodox Church, which went so far as to excommunicate him for his writings on Christianity in 1901.
What I Believe (В чём моя́ ве́ра?), first published in English as My Religion, [1] is an 1884 book by Leo Tolstoy. It was listed as Volume 4 of an untitled four-part work. It was listed as Volume 4 of an untitled four-part work.
Confession (pre-reform Russian: Исповѣдь; post-reform Russian: Исповедь, romanized: Íspovedʹ), or My Confession, is a short work on the subject of melancholia, philosophy and religion by the Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy. It was written in 1879 to 1880, when Tolstoy was in his early fifties. [1]
In Henri Troyat's biography, Tolstoy, which I never did finish, because I found Tolstoy so maddening, Troyat includes an excerpt from Tolstoy's "Rules of Life." Tolstoy wrote these rules when he ...
Leo Tolstoy wrote the book The Kingdom of God is Within You, which is considered an important Christian anarchist text. The 19th-century Christian abolitionists Adin Ballou and William Lloyd Garrison were critical of all human governments and believed that they would be eventually supplanted by a new order in which individuals are guided solely ...