title: Leo Tolstoy’s Christian anarchism: Towards a political theology
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metadata.value: Klimova, Svetlana M.
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metadata.value: 2023-04-27T19:23:11Z
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metadata.value: 2023-04-27T19:23:11Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2023-03
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metadata.value: Klimova S. M. Leo Tolstoy’s Christian anarchism: Towards a political theology. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Philosophy and Conflict Studies, 2023, vol. 39, issue 1, pp. 43–56. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu17.2023.104 (In Russian)
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu17.2023.104
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/41378
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metadata.value: The article specifies the characteristics of Christian Anarchism as applied to the religious
  teaching of Lev Tolstoy. An attempt is made to overcome the political stereotype of his perception as an anarchist, but to consider it’s in the context of Political Theology. The article
  calls into question the legitimacy of considering his religious teachings in the unambiguous
  political discourse of Anarchism. If the concept of Christian Anarchism is a special kind of
  theoretical and ideological oxymoron of “religious politics”, then Tolstoy’s teaching is considered
  as a manifestation of his subjectivism, aimed at simultaneously overcoming the personal,
  animal element in man and reaching an impersonal universal spiritual principle, without any
  external restrictions. Freedom, as the most important category of his worldview, is presented
  rather in the form of religious monarchism — submission to the Divine will and life according
  to Christ, and not in the form of radical Anarchism. Political Theology is considered as a
  conscious non-participation of individual in politics — that is, refusal to stay in state structures
  such as courts, army, police, etc., — is the religious-subjective, peaceful destruction of
  the system, according to Tolstoy. On this path, he went much further than his Enlightenment
  teachers with their theories of social contracts, creating a model of not struggle, not reconciliation,
  not an agreement, but retirement from the state in the form of non-participation in its
  violence and atrocities. But all this is worth doing — not rebelling anarchically, not for the
  sake of oneself or social justice, but completely obeying the Divine will, which is a religious
  modification of the Kantian ethical imperative in Tolstoy’s teachings. Chertkov has named this
  teaching as model of theocratic monarchism.
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metadata.value: This article was supported by a grant from the Russian Science Foundation no. 19-18-00100,
  https://rscf.ru/project/19-18-00100/.
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metadata.value: ru
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Philosophy and Conflict Studies;Volume 39; Issue 1
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Tolstoy
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: monarchism
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Christian Anarchism
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Political Anarchism
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: philosophy of freedom
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: necessity
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: non-participation
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metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Leo Tolstoy’s Christian anarchism: Towards a political theology
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metadata.value: Article
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