The Kingdom of God is Within You / Christianity and Patriotism / Miscellanies

The Kingdom of God is Within You / Christianity and Patriotism / Miscellanies
Author: Leo graf Tolstoy
Publisher: Good Press
Total Pages: 427
Release: 2021-05-18
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

The Kingdom of God is Within You / Christianity and Patriotism / Miscellanies is a book by Leo Tolstoy. Essentially a Christian radical philosophical discourse, it presents a new structure for society based on an understanding of Christianity aiming for universal love.

A Road to Nowhere

A Road to Nowhere
Author: Matthew W. Slaboch
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2018
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0812249801

Matthew W. Slaboch examines the work of German philosophers Arthur Schopenhauer and Oswald Spengler, Russian novelists Leo Tolstoy and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, and American historians Henry Adams and Christopher Lasch—rare skeptics of the idea of progress who have much to offer political theory, a field dominated by historical optimists.

Second Tolstoy

Second Tolstoy
Author: Steve Hickey
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 350
Release: 2021-11-12
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1725285355

Very few if any have devoted more years to practicing and teaching others to practice the precepts of Jesus’s Sermon on the Mount than Leo Tolstoy. He stands apart in the history of interpretation and has had enormous influence on others and other countries. Yet, Gandhi or others often get the glory. Tolstoy is remembered as a great writer, but his religious and philosophical works are by and large unknown or disparaged, even in scholarly Tolstoyan circles. His contribution is substantially under-appreciated and misunderstood. In Second Tolstoy: The Sermon on the Mount as Theo-tactics, Steve Hickey captures the particulars and dynamics of Tolstoy’s interpretation of the Sermon on the Mount from a deliberately sympathetic vantage point. Underlying this project is shared belief with Tolstoy that the Sermon on the Mount is liveable and to be lived. While from the vantage point of traditional orthodoxy Tolstoy got much wrong, there remains a lack of appreciation for what he got right—radical obedience to the teachings of Jesus. A new vocabulary is proposed to more precisely capture Tolstoyan lived theology, namely the political and social expressions of Tolstoyan Christianity, with the hope that these theories and practices will gain a wider consideration, understanding, and following.

The Anarchist Dimension of Liberation Theology

The Anarchist Dimension of Liberation Theology
Author: Linda H. Damico
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 227
Release: 2012-07-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1620323443

While other studies of liberation theology have shown a close connection to Marxism, none have probed its anarchistic dimensions. This original study reveals that in many of the most prominent themes of Latin American liberation theology there are close parallels to the ideas found in nineteenth-century European anarchism. These themes include an ethical concern with freedom, justice, equality, and love; a denunciation of political and economic structures of domination; an emphasis on action; a championing of all oppressed peoples; a realistic consideration of the issue of violence; and the vision of a future free from servitude.These common concerns, along with historical connections to both religious and secular anarchist sources, show a revolutionary theology deeply indebted to its anarchist roots.