The Kingdom of God Is Within You

by Leo Tolstoy · 1894

Heard in 1 episode across 1 show since Sep 2026

A Christian anarchist philosophical treatise in which Leo Tolstoy argues that Jesus’s teachings—especially nonresistance to evil and love of one’s enemies—require rejecting violence, state power, and institutional Christianity. First published in Germany in 1894 after being banned in Russia, it presents Tolstoy’s vision of a society organized around moral and spiritual principles.

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