What I BelieveCosimo, Inc., 01/09/2007 - 248 من الصفحات Originally published in 1885, What I Believe is part of series of books by novelist Leo Tolstoy that outline his personal interpretation of Christian theology. After a midlife crisis at age 50, he began to believe in the moral teachings of Christianity, while rejecting mysticism and organized religion. He believed that pacifism and poverty were the paths to enlightenment. His precepts of nonviolence even influenced Mohandas Gandhi. Students of religion, political science, and literature alike will gain new understanding from the ideas presented in this book. Students of literature will get to understand more deeply one of the greatest novelist in history, while those interested in religion and politics can see how Tolstoy's philosophy came to influence the world at large. Russian writer COUNT LEV ("LEO") NIKOLAYEVICH TOLSTOY (1828-1910) is best known for his novels War and Peace (1869) and Anna Karenina (1877). |
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... Gospels , ' with a commentary . In these works I examine all that conceals the truth from the eyes of men , and also ... Gospel ; it was a sudden removal of all that hid the true meaning of the Christian doctrine - a momentary flash of ...
... Gospels , ' with a commentary . In these works I examine all that conceals the truth from the eyes of men , and also ... Gospel ; it was a sudden removal of all that hid the true meaning of the Christian doctrine - a momentary flash of ...
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... Gospel for myself , the doctrine which teaches love , humility , meekness , self - denial , and returning good for evil , was the doctrine that touched me most . I always considered it as the basis teaching of Christi- anity , and loved ...
... Gospel for myself , the doctrine which teaches love , humility , meekness , self - denial , and returning good for evil , was the doctrine that touched me most . I always considered it as the basis teaching of Christi- anity , and loved ...
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... Gospels , and I read them over and over again . Of all the Gospels , the Sermon on the Mount was the portion which impressed me most , and I studied it WHAT I Believe . 7.
... Gospels , and I read them over and over again . Of all the Gospels , the Sermon on the Mount was the portion which impressed me most , and I studied it WHAT I Believe . 7.
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... Gospel I sought the solution of my doubts . Many and many a time I read over the sermon , and every time I felt the ... Gospels , and various commentaries upon them . Our theological explanations tell us that in the apoph- thegms of the ...
... Gospel I sought the solution of my doubts . Many and many a time I read over the sermon , and every time I felt the ... Gospels , and various commentaries upon them . Our theological explanations tell us that in the apoph- thegms of the ...
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... Gospel , that I came to understand the doctrine . On the contrary , all grew clear to me for the very reason that I ... Gospels well , I have observed the same indifference to the force of this text that I had felt . Nobody specially ...
... Gospel , that I came to understand the doctrine . On the contrary , all grew clear to me for the very reason that I ... Gospels well , I have observed the same indifference to the force of this text that I had felt . Nobody specially ...
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الصفحة 129 - Or what king, going to make war against another king, sitteth not down first, and consulteth whether he be able with ten thousand to meet him that cometh against him with twenty thousand?
الصفحة 80 - But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.
الصفحة 79 - For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife; 8 And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh. 9 What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
الصفحة 29 - Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law : but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.
الصفحة 85 - Neither shalt thou swear by thy head, because thou canst not make one hair white or black. % But let your communication be, Yea, yea ; nay, nay : for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil.
الصفحة 132 - And this know, that if the goodman of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched, and not have suffered his house to be broken through. 40 Be ye therefore ready also: for the Son of man cometh at an hour when ye think not.
الصفحة 88 - But above all things, my brethren, swear not; neither by heaven, neither by the earth, | neither by any other oath : but let your yea, be yea; and your nay, nay ; lest ye fall into condemnation.
الصفحة 79 - And He saith unto them, Whosoever shall put away his wife, and marry another, committeth adultery against her. And if a woman shall put away her husband, and be married to another, she committeth adultery.
الصفحة 57 - The Jews answered him, We have a law, and by our law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God.