What I Believe
Written by Leo Tolstoy
Narrated by Billy O'Donovan
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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.
Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy grew up in Russia, raised by a elderly aunt and educated by French tutors while studying at Kazen University before giving up on his education and volunteering for military duty. When writing his greatest works, War and Peace and Anna Karenina, Tolstoy drew upon his diaries for material. At eighty-two, while away from home, he suffered from declining health and died in Astapovo, Riazan in 1910.
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Reviews for What I Believe
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5great read. something to take away even for a nonbeliever.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Amazing. Revolutionary. Long-winded because Tolstoy. And I’m neither a Christian nor a believer. But neither is the church nor any state or government, Tolstoy writes. And certainly by the standards of this book, the United States as a nation and system of government is nowhere close to being a Christian nation.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A total surprise, so far the best Christian book I’ve read (beside CS Lewis) on faith and the meaning of life according to the laws of Christ. It goes against a lot of main stream christianity (of his time as well as of ours) to discuss what Jesus said and tried to explain to us. A revelation that sound true and truth to me. It gets a bit tedious in the middle but picks up again and ends with a wonderful recap. I highly recommend this book to hear the opinion of one of the. greatest writers of our times that with no shame admits his failures.