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The Gospel in Brief

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The four Gospels that begin the Bible's New Testament tell the life of Jesus. But each Gospel relates a slightly different version of events. Some stories appear only in one Gospel, while certain other stories are different in each. What Leo Tolstoy sought to do in "The Gospel In Brief" was to apply his tremendous skills as a writer to tell the life of Jesus in one seamless narrative, thus integrating the four Gospels. The result is a work that reads like a novel, complete with twelve chapters. The project was very important to Tolstoy. With "The Gospel In Brief", he sought to democratize access to the Gospel, making the life of Jesus accessible to everyone. (He particularly had in mind the Russian peasantry.) Tolstoy based his translation on his study of the original Greek versions of the Bible. Unfortunately the Russian Orthodox Church viewed the book as sacrilegious. How dare he re-write the sacred texts? The Church worked to suppress "The Gospel In Brief", and in 1901, it permanently excommunicated Tolstoy, Russia's greatest novelist.

About This Edition

ISBN: 9780061993459
Publication date: 1st March 2011
Author: Leo Tolstoy, Dustin Condren
Publisher: HarperPerennial an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Format: Paperback
Pagination: 224 pages
Series: Harper Perennial Modern Thought
Genres: Philosophy of religion
Christianity
New Testaments
Criticism and exegesis of sacred texts
Personal religious testimony and popular inspirational works