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The Kingdom of God is Within You:

Christianity Not as a Mystic Religion But as a New Theory of Life
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U of Nebraska Press, 1984 - Religion - 368 pages
First published in Germany in 1894, after being banned in Russia, The Kingdom of God Is within You reveals Tolstoy’s world outlook after his conversion to Christianity. He argues that the kingdom of God is within reach of all.

The core of the book deals with his nonresistance to evil, a principle Tolstoy passionately advocated. Gandhi was won over by the book. Tolstoy clearly describes the hazards that bullying governments and false beliefs produced. “The situation of the Christian part of humanity—with its prisons, forced labor, gallows, saloons, brothels, constantly increasing armaments, and millions of confused people ready like trained hounds to attack anyone against whom their masters set them—this situation would be terrible if it were the product of coercion, but it is above all the product of public opinion.”

Abhorring the violence of revolution, Tolstoy calls on Christians to remember that the only guide for their actions is to be found in the divine principle dwelling within them, which in no sense can be checked or governed by anyone or anything else.

  

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This book was written as a sort of manifesto of Tolstoy's religious and political views of the necessity for nonviolence (Jesus' position of resist not evil). Mahatma Gandhi was greatly inspired by ...

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Reportedly, this book changed Ghandi's life and helped solidify his philosophy regarding nonviolence. You would expect from the title that this is a 'preacher's book' and is apologetic in nature and ...

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THE DOCTRINE OF NONRESISTANCE TO EVIL BY FORCE HAS BEEN PROFESSED BY A MINORITY OF MEN FROM THE VERY FOUNDA...
1
CRITICISMS OF THE DOCTRINE OF NONRESISTANCE TO EVIL BY FORCE ON THE PART OF BELIEVERS AND OF UNBELIEVERS
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CHRISTIANITY MISUNDERSTOOD BY BELIEVERS
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CHRISTIANITY MISUNDERSTOOD BY MEN OF SCIENCE
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CONTRADICTION BETWEEN OUR LIFE AND OUR CHRISTIAN CONSCIENCE
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ATTITUDE OF MEN OF THE PRESENT DAY TO WAR
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SIGNIFICANCE OF COMPULSORY SERVICE
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DOCTRINE OF NONRESISTANCE TO EVIL BY FORCE MUST INEVITABLY BE ACCEPTED BY MEN OF THE PRESENT DAY
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THE ACCEPTANCE OF THE CHRISTIAN CONCEPTION OF LIFE WILL EMANCIPATE MEN FROM THE MISERIES OF OUR PAGAN LIFE
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EVIL CANNOT BE SUPPRESSED BY THE PHYSICAL FORCE OF THE GOVERNMENT THE MORAL PROGRESS OF HUMANITY IS BROUG...
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THE CHRISTIAN CONCEPTION OF LIFE HAS ALREADY ARISEN IN OUR SOCIETY AND WILL INFALLIBLY PUT AN END TO THE PRES...
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CONCLUSION REPENT YE FOR THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN IS AT HAND
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The foreword is by Martin Green, an English professor at Tufts University and author of The Origins of Nonviolence: Tolstoy and Gandhi in Their Historical Setting.

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