"THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS WITHIN YOU" CHRISTIANITY NOT AS A MYSTIC RELIGION BUT AS A NEW THEORY OF LIFE TRANSLATED FROM THE RUSSIAN OF COUNT LEO TOLSTOI BY CONSTANCE GARNETT New York, 1894 e-transcribed by Jack Eden, 2002 HTML by C. Christopher Smith, Kingdom Now, 2002 "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. "--John viii. 32. "Fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul; but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell."--MATT. x. 28. "Ye have been bought with a price; be not ye the servants of men."--I COR. vii. 23. TABLE OF CONTENTS: PREFACE TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE. TOLSTOI'S PREFACE. E-TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE. CHAPTER I. THE DOCTRINE OF NONRESISTANCE TO EVIL BY FORCE HAS BEEN PROFESSED BY A MINORITY OF MEN FROM THE VERY FOUNDATION OF CHRISTIANITY CHAPTER II. CRITICISMS OF THE DOCTRINE OF NON-RESISTANCE TO EVIL BY FORCE ON THE PART OF BELIEVERS AND OF UNBELIEVERS CHAPTER III. CHRISTIANITY MISUNDERSTOOD BY BELIEVERS CHAPTER IV. CHRISTIANITY MISUNDERSTOOD BY MEN OF SCIENCE CHAPTER V. CONTRADICTION BETWEEN OUR LIFE AND OUR CHRISTIAN CONSCIENCE CHAPTER VI. ATTITUDE OF MEN OF THE PRESENT DAY TO WAR CHAPTER VII. SIGNIFICANCE OF COMPULSORY SERVICE CHAPTER VIII. DOCTRINE OF NON-RESISTANCE TO EVIL BY FORCE MUST INEVITABLY BE ACCEPTED BY MEN OF THE PRESENT DAY CHAPTER IX. THE ACCEPTANCE OF THE CHRISTIAN CONCEPTION OF LIFE WILL EMANCIPATE MEN FROM THE MISERIES OF OUR PAGAN LIFE CHAPTER X. EVIL CANNOT BE SUPRESSED BY THE PHYSICAL FORCE OF THE GOVERNMENT--THE MORAL PROGRESS OF HUMANITY IS BROUGHT ABOUT NOT ONLY BY INDIVIDUAL RECOGNITION OF THE TRUTH BUT ALSO THROUGH THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A PUBLIC OPINION CHAPTER XI. THE CHRISTIAN CONCEPTION OF LIFE HAS ALREADY ARISEN IN OUR SOCIETY, AND WILL INFALLIBLY PUT AN END TO THE PRESENT ORGANIZATION OP OUR LIFE BASED ON FORCE--WHEN THAT WILL BE CHAPTER XII. CONCLUSION: REPENT YE, FOR THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN IS AT HAND [ Preface | Top ]