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Christianity · 1879–1882
A Confession
Tolstoy’s account of a crisis of meaning and his search for a faith by which he could live.
Translated by Aylmer Maude (1921)
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- 1Chapter 1 — Childhood Faith and Self-Perfection
- 2Chapter 2 — The Religion of Literary Fame
- 3Chapter 3 — Progress, Family and the Question of Life
- 4Chapter 4 — The Crisis of Meaning
- 5Chapter 5 — Seeking Answers in Science and Philosophy
- 6Chapter 6 — The Answers of the Sages
- 7Chapter 7 — Four Ways of Facing Life
- 8Chapter 8 — Faith among the Common People
- 9Chapter 9 — The Finite and the Infinite
- 10Chapter 10 — Learning from Lives of Faith
- 11Chapter 11 — Changing the Life I Lived
- 12Chapter 12 — Seeking God and Returning to Life
- 13Chapter 13 — Returning to the Church
- 14Chapter 14 — The Limits of Ritual
- 15Chapter 15 — Division, Violence and Belief
- 16Chapter 16 — Separating Truth from Falsehood
- 17Afterword — A Dream of Support
- 18Translator’s Notes
