The Gospel in Brief: The Life of JesusThe greatest novelist of all time retells the greatest story ever told, the life of Jesus Christ, in The Gospel in Brief—Leo Tolstoy’s riveting, novelistic integration of the four Gospels into a single, twelve-chapter narrative. Virtually unknown to English readers until now, Dustin Condren’s groundbreaking translation from the Russian opens a precious new world of Tolstoy’s masterful literary talent to fans of War and Peace and Anna Karenina. |
Contents
The Struggle with Temptations | 123 |
The Farewell Conversation | 135 |
The Spirits Victory over the Flesh | 145 |
The First Epistle of John the Evangelist | 159 |
VERSE INDEX | 165 |
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | 181 |
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