Christianity and Patriotism (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

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Christianity and Patriotism (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

Author: Leo Tolstoy

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Collection: Barnes & Noble Digital Library

Language: English

Published by: Barnes & Noble

Published on: 6th March 2012

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 116 pages

ISBN: 9781411464902


In this carefully constructed critical essay, written in 1894

Tolstoy admonishes a government that wages war by arousing patriotic fervor and a Church that supports such a government’s policies. His argument—that war and patriotism have nothing in common with the Christian principles of nonviolence and nonresistance—continues to resound today.

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