Cited by Mahatma Gandhi as one of the most important influences in his life, Tolstoy's magnum opus The Kingdom of God is within you is a culmination of his thirty years of Christian thinking and reflection. He challenges the modernization of the church and lays the groundwork for a new organization of society based on a literal interpretation of Christianity. Readers are reminded of the messages of Jesus Christ to "turn the other cheek" and to take the path of nonresistance when confronted by threats or violence. A landmark ...
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Cited by Mahatma Gandhi as one of the most important influences in his life, Tolstoy's magnum opus The Kingdom of God is within you is a culmination of his thirty years of Christian thinking and reflection. He challenges the modernization of the church and lays the groundwork for a new organization of society based on a literal interpretation of Christianity. Readers are reminded of the messages of Jesus Christ to "turn the other cheek" and to take the path of nonresistance when confronted by threats or violence. A landmark book for Christianity.
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Personally encouraging, it is also a criticism of the Russian Orthodox Church of Tolstoy's time. So, it is psychology but also history. The myth of modernity is exposed by the red meat thinking of an excellent thinker. That for about a thousand years, the Church was the only game in town meant that for that same amount of time the best minds were working on it. Before medicine came in pill form the quality of your interior was held in higher esteem.
