الدين في فكر تولستوي

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Research Summary Leo Tolstoy is considered one of the most prominent Russian figures in the field of literature and thought, as well as a religious and social reformer.

With his religious thought, Tolstoy represented a major turning point in Russian society, as he represented Tolstoy's position on the church, and his rejection of church teachings and rituals, an aspect of acceptance by many of his readers.

Tolstoy, and perhaps the religious reform movement, which appeared in Europe, and which Tolstoy experienced through his European travels and reading, of the writings of the great thinkers of European society had a great impact on Tolstoy's aspiration for the religious reform movement within the church, and Tolstoy began his religious journey, in an early age, was his first steps With religion is the aversion and abandonment of the teachings of the Church, which he returned to after a long journey of doubt, during which he realized that the faith resulting from the teachings of religion, , is the main way out of the state of doubt and confusion that Tolstoy experienced at the age of fifty, but Tolstoy returned this time to the church with a new thought, as he looked forward to religious reform, relied on his rejection of the teachings of the church, and the rejection of all texts attributed to the clergy and there is no support connection Between her and Jesus Christ, and the result of that was Tolstoy's founding of a new gospel that relied on the texts of only four gospels, after purifying these gospels from the texts in which Tolstoy saw their violation of the spirit of the Christian religion, and this gospel was known as “Tolstoy's Gospel” and Tolstoy opened up to other religions He studied Islam and its teachings, in accordance with his ideas and the beliefs of Tolstoy, who believed in and defended them.