Abstract
BOTH DURING HIS LIFE and after, Lev Tolstoy was often labeled a mystic. Tolstoy himself rejected this label and said so openly on several occasions. In his treatiseThe Kingdom of God Is within You(1890–93), Tolstoy recalls with disdain and sarcasm how certain “foreign critics” had called him a “Russian mystic” (28:37). He gave the treatise the subtitleChristianity Not as a Mystical Doctrine but as a New Conception of Life.In the religious and philosophical rhetoric Tolstoy deployed in his writings on Christianity in the years just before and after the turn of the twentieth century, the
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Tolstoy and His Problems |
Subtitle of host publication | Views from the Twenty-First Century |
Publisher | Northwestern University Press |
Pages | 59-88 |
Number of pages | 30 |
ISBN (Print) | 9780810138810 |
State | Published - 2019 |