Title: Apology for Pacifism
Review: Tolstoy complains theologians transformed the commands of Christ into meaning commands that could be practically followed by men in the world.Out of respect for the same theologians he then goes on to downgrade Christ's command to "love one's enemies" into his practical doctrine of pacifism that man is able to follow.Tolstoy confidently asserts that his liberating work, "What I Believe", has corrected eighteen centuries of misinterpretation of Christ's teachings by Christendom. His hubris knows no bounds by going on to deny the divinity of Christ. One gets the impression that Tolstoy thinks his book is a better Gospel of Christ than what is offered in the Cannon.Practically speaking, Tolstoy would have been more productive to mankind completing War and Peace, leaving theology to those who study it.
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