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But taken as a whole, his project is interesting. The problem was that he went so far from the original text in places that even allies of the aging sage thought he had gone overboard. His tortuous life indicates how serious he was about finding this truth. Tolstoy’s goal was noble enough – a better Christianity to make a better people. Tolstoy sought to reshape Christianity into a practical guide, removing it from the clutches of the orthodox (he uses the same exact term for the Bible’s pharisees, just to make it clear to his readers who the enemy is and always has been). Christians have four official versions of Jesus, and as many apocryphal ones as they like – why ask for more!? As Dustin Condren notes in the introduction to his translation of the Tolstoy, in Tolstoy’s case he wanted “to find the practical, pure teaching of Jesus Christ, to free it from the linguistic patina of ritual and scripture, removing both the dogmatic and the supernatural”. Urn:isbn:0671407104 Republisher_operator Scandate 20111217102555 Scanner rewrite the Gospels? Nikos Kazantzakis’s The Last Temptation is the second attempt at it that I’ve met this year, after Tolstoy’s The Life of Jesus: The Gospel in Brief. OL85540W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 97.67 Pages 518 Ppi 514 Related-external-id urn:isbn:068485256X Urn:lcp:lasttemptationof00niko:epub:d7fbfbbd-5d5a-4727-b780-753c56cbef65 Extramarc OhioLINK Library Catalog Foldoutcount 0 Identifier lasttemptationof00niko Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t9s19129t Isbn 0671407104Ġ671672576 Lccn 60010985 Ocr ABBYY FineReader 8.0 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.11 Ocr_module_version 0.0.14 Openlibrary OL7661758M Openlibrary_edition Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 17:29:52 Boxid IA142314 Boxid_2 CH100401 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City Containerid_2 X0001 Donor