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This chapter surveys the paradoxes of Tolstoy’s religious worldview in five sections. The first section surveys the fiction: moments of grace in Tolstoy’s creative, aesthetically created worlds. The second is biographical, his so-called crisis years (1877–1885) and conversion to radical Christian anarchism, with its pivotal text What Then Must We Do? (1883–1886). The third is doctrinal: Tolstoy’s image of Jesus, whose assault on the Temple and ethically oriented parables are central to Tolstoy’s own rewriting and ‘harmonization’ of the Gospels. This discussion ends with the 1901 edict formally separating Tolstoy from the Russian Orthodox Church. The fourth section takes up Tolstoy’s 1886 treatise On Life (and its problematic vision of the afterlife). The conclusion briefly places Tolstoy among his fellow moral philosophers, especially Vladimir Soloviev, Vasily Zenkovsky, and Nicolas Berdyaev.
Title: Tolstoy
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This chapter surveys the paradoxes of Tolstoy’s religious worldview in five sections.
The first section surveys the fiction: moments of grace in Tolstoy’s creative, aesthetically created worlds.
The second is biographical, his so-called crisis years (1877–1885) and conversion to radical Christian anarchism, with its pivotal text What Then Must We Do? (1883–1886).
The third is doctrinal: Tolstoy’s image of Jesus, whose assault on the Temple and ethically oriented parables are central to Tolstoy’s own rewriting and ‘harmonization’ of the Gospels.
This discussion ends with the 1901 edict formally separating Tolstoy from the Russian Orthodox Church.
The fourth section takes up Tolstoy’s 1886 treatise On Life (and its problematic vision of the afterlife).
The conclusion briefly places Tolstoy among his fellow moral philosophers, especially Vladimir Soloviev, Vasily Zenkovsky, and Nicolas Berdyaev.
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