The Law of Love and the Law of Violence [Paperback]

Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy (Author), Mary Koutouzow Tolstoy (Translator)

Product Details

• Paperback: 130 pages
• Publisher: University Press of the Pacific (July 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1780898991
• ISBN-13: 978-1780898995
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)

More About the Author

Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) wrote two of the great novels of the nineteenth century, War and Peace and Anna Karenina.

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars God is or He insn't, February 23, 2005

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David P. Aasmundstad "D. P. Aasmundstad (Deep... (Northern Plains, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The law of love and the law of violence (Holt paperback) (Paperback)

If one confidently labels oneself a follower of Jesus Christ, yet don't find credence in Tolstoy's proclamations, you ain't the real thing, baby. Tolstoy's title makes for a good read. Warning to the Christian right: are you sure Bush has Christ in his heart?

Tolstoy's reader will be slapped in the face with consternation and this is as it should be for the true believer. Surely worth your time if you want to become enlightened.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The book that spawned Dr. King?, February 13, 2007

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J. McGinley "brother jay" (Washington, DC) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Law of Love and the Law of Violence (Paperback)

Did you know that Tolstoy created Gandhi with his "The Kingdom of God is Within You?" Gandhi says as much, having read it as a young barrister in UK. It transformed him (along with Ruskin's "Unto This Last")and on he went to save India with this "bible" under his arm, by way of South Africa.

DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. was formed if not created by Tolstoy's "The Law of Love and the Law of Violence" which he read as a Seminarian at Crozier Seminary in Chester PA.

Both these books were created by Tolstoy's self-suicide preventing work, "The Gospel In Brief," his original translation of the Greek Texts of the Gospel. THIS is the book that could save the world. THIS is the GOOD NEWS, THE TRUE GOSPEL.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This should be required reading for the Christian and Nonchristian alike., June 22, 2009

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Patrick J. Rabb (Greenville, SC) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Law of Love and the Law of Violence (Paperback)

This is my first encounter with the writing of Leo Tolstoy, but I believe it has profoundly changed my view of christianity and the role it has played in history both past and present. I deciced to read this work after it was recommended on the website of the King Center founded by Coretta Scott King the wife of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.