The Gospel in Brief - The Life of Jesus (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	HarperPerennial
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Harper Perennial Modern Thought
Release date:	March 2011
First published:	February 2011
Authors:	Leo Tolstoy • Dustin Condren
Dimensions:	181 x 127 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	224
ISBN-13:	978-0-06-199345-9
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Christianity > The historical Jesus Books > Religion & Spirituality > Christianity > The historical Jesus Books > Christianity > The Historical Jesus Promotions
LSN:	0-06-199345-X
Barcode:	9780061993459

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