O cristianismo libertário de Tolstoi: implicações políticas de um saber religioso

Abstract

This work aims to know the political‐religious thought from the prominent Russian thinker Leo Tolstoy (1828‐1910), in his constant literary essays, written at the second half of the nineteenth century, with emphasis on the work Godʹs Kingdom Is In You. The problem that we are willing to face, at the heart of this work, goes through the sense of radical interpretation dismissed by Tolstoy to the Gospel, considering that his reading of the Good News flows, in crucial aspects, in the opposite direction to consecrated versions by the heroes of the traditional Christian Churches, particularly when defining the teachings of Jesus as a guided compass of a transformation aimed at the establishment of a just and equitable social order, antithetical to private property and the existence of the state. Matching the hermeneutic of everyday life with the theory of imaginary, in Tolstoy s Libertarian Christianity: political implications of a religious knowledge, we emphasize the lines of strength of a contrary spirituality to Christianities of the State; uplifting pacifist libertarian ethics, inspired by the Sermon on the Mount, predicated by the author as founded on a rational faith and in a loving rationality