The Kingdom of God Is Within You (Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading): Christianity Not as a Mystic Religion but as a New Theory of Life
By (Author) Leo Tolstoy
Introduction by David Taffel
Translated by Constance Garnett
Union Square & Co.
Barnes & Noble Inc
20th January 2005
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United States
General
Non Fiction
197
Paperback
304
Width 140mm, Height 210mm
"The Kingdom Of God Is Within You" is one of the most provocative anti-establishment and anti-authoritarian pieces of literature ever written. In the context of a sincere and scathing account of what is living and dead in modern Christianity, Tolstoy presents a view of history and society that overcomes widely recognised theoretical contradictions implicit in his monumental early novel, "War and Peace". At the focal point of "The Kingdom Of God Is Within You" is the doctrine of radical non-violence that Tolstoy understands Jesus to have articulated in the Sermon on the Mount's injunction against responding to evil with evil. Though the treatise was banned upon completion in 1893, this quickly translated and widely disseminated work was destined to become the most powerful and influential of his major late period writings.