In an interview in the Süddeutsche times in June 2010, said Vladimir Ilyich Tolstoy's great-great grandson of Leo N. Tolstoy's religious position:
"You can Tolstoy in none of today's religions squeeze. He was in fact much more ... He was looking for ways to overcome the denominational barriers .. "(see page 27, number 3 / 2010 of the booklets of exhibitions at the Literature House in Munich," a light come up me "- Lev Tolstoy and Germany). Even at the time of its use in the Crimean War Tolstoy thought about the idea of a practical rationalism to religion, "which promises no future happiness, but promises happiness on this earth" (ditto page 28). Intensiv he dealt with religion since 1881. His writings "My Confession" and "What my belief is " could not appear at his time in Russia. In" My Confession " he turned his " new spiritual birth " and rejected any possession. I do not know when, but some point during his latest work his third major novel "Resurrection" , it must be pushed on the American economists:
" The country can not be the subject of property rights can not be the object of purchase and sale, any more than water, such as air, as the sun rays. All have the same right to the land and the benefits it offers to people. "
about ten years Tolstoy in "Resurrection," he published in 1899. In 1901 he was expelled from the Orthodox Church. In the novel, he violently criticized the celebration of Orthodox worship.
"... the greatest blasphemy and mockery of the same Jesus was, in whose name all this happened. "
Tolstoy right, of course, Jesus was loving it when someone withdraws without pomp in his little room, in the solitude, and there pray. For the gold splendor of an iconostasis is Jesus would never be interested. People seem to prone that it something tangible / material for their faith need. is why it also icons that is the need of popular piety pacify.
The protagonist of the novel Prince Dmitri Ivanovich Nekhludoff that recognizes a jury in a trial, that he blamed for the severe fate of a young woman with whom he, when she was sixteen years old, had seduced. He is to blame for that, Maslova, became a prostitute, she has now been sentenced by that court because of a murder allegedly committed poison to hard labor in Siberia. Since this is a miscarriage of justice is what came out of carelessness and inattentiveness during the hearing about, will reach a Nekhludoff cassation this ruling. He is guilty of corrupt her life and wants to atone for his guilt.
Nekhludoff questioned his past life, his wealth, his inheritance. He wants to radically change his life, even taking the idea of marrying any Maslova and realizes that he is a "dissolute man is." Only through such awareness and embrace his suffering, he will probably be a cleaning, that are becoming aware of his spiritual being. Yes indeed, Tolstoy is in this novel quite spiritually and reminds me a little of Buddhism. Recognize the suffering, are investigating the causes of suffering, and then transform the suffering into joy. However, in Tolstoy, the question of guilt is placed at the center, by the Christian aspect of the debt forgiveness moves to the center. Interdenominational spiritual but is that what Tolstoy says about love.
".. love to all and to all, not only for the beautiful, the good that exists in the Weld, but also to that beggar whom she had kissed."
interesting embracing the Nekhludoff this finding love during the Easter Mass wins. As Resurrection in the novel, the conversion of animal understood the spiritual man. Hence the title of the novel.
The other big issue is the discovery of unspeakable abuses and sloppiness Russian judicial authorities. Many innocent people sitting in prisons. The exposure of the wickedness the Russian civil service is one of the highlights of the novel.
" It was clear that what is considered valuable and good, is void, and loathsome, and that all this splendor, all this splendor obscured only old crimes ...."
Certain officials are like a cog in a whole system, have hidden in the officials, the compassion, humanity. Love is the most important of all, the universal love, the big cake of humanity. Because of this bureaucracy is missing in this humanity, happen all the disasters and injustices, this novel about Tolstoy has probably written at all. As with Dostoyevsky is about guilt and atonement. I refer to a quote that Tolstoy quotes from novel start as a motto:
" But Peter, and said to him:" Lord, how oft shall my brother sin to me to forgive?. Is seven times? "Jesus said to him:" I say, not seven times, but seventy times seven " Matthew XVIII, 21/22
If a man has achieved in the all-embracing love, he can always forgive.. because he loves her. This is a fundamental part of Christianity. This is what the novel. Nekhludoff so far still this man who is striving for those ideals, in this way, he wants to cleanse his conscience, not for personal reasons, but because of God's justice. The Russian bureaucracy is therefore impious. If love was there, individual officers would not torture prisoners. If we are to believe give to the Apostle Paul, not much good for the man if he has no love.
And then comes the wonderful sentence, which would have the Apostle Paul to preach
" If it were possible to assume that something is ... more important than any sense of human kindness, be it even for an hour and only one exception in any case, there was not a single crime you could not keep his guilt without committing to the people. "
Leo Tolstoy has Resurrection a religious / spiritual novel written that apart from the final, with conviction. Nekhludoff embodies the ideas of Tolstoy. The end of the novel, however, mired in a theological homily, is in the cited diligently from the Gospel of Matthew. This is very unfortunate. In this otherwise well-crafted novel would not have allowed this happen. The spiritual development Nekhludoff had to the Roman should terminate gracefully, must be developed in literature. But that is now the novel ends in only one unspeakable moral swamp. Although the quotes from Matthew are chosen to match and novel object to their statements there is nothing, moralizing the world have never been converted for the better. Herein lies the dilemma, in which Tolstoy must have found. Even at the time of the Crimean War Tolstoy was aware that a viable new rationalistic religion according to his ideas leave only be realized if future generations aware of working towards this goal.
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