Orthodoxy Inside-Out: How Certain Orthodox Ideas Are Reflected in Lev Tolstoi's Religious Thinking

Abstract

В статье представлен текстуальный и контекстуальный анализ почти забытой книги Л. Толстого "Исследование догматического богословия".

This view can be found even in his most viciously anti-Orthodox work, An examination of Dogmatic Theology, an almost forgotten book which is important for our understanding Tolstoi's attitude towards Orthodoxy. In this article, I focus on two points: his anthropology and his view on how we can understand God. I combine textual and contextual analysis, that is, a careful reading of this book with a reading of the theological treatises on which he based his criticism.