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Banned in Russia, Leo Tolstoy's treatise on Christian nonviolence first appeared in Germany in 1894, the product of 30 years of his thinking. Taking its title from Luke 17:21, it reads Christ's command to turn the other cheek as a call to give up all violence, even in self-defense, and all revenge, rejecting the narrower readings of Roman and medieval scholars. Tolstoy argues that governments that wage war offend Christian ethics, and separates the gospel, above all the Sermon on the Mount, from the teaching of a Russian Orthodox Church bound to the state. He discusses Adin Ballou and William Lloyd Garrison at length. The work became a key text for nonviolent resistance and Christian anarchism.
Jordan B. Peterson included it among the suggested readings for Maps of Meaning.
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