Throughout his life, Tolstoy had an abiding interest in religious faith and Christian teaching. His interpretation of faith and the Christian teaching was a supreme manifestation of his love of freedom, which formed its main motive and substance. Tolstoy made a long journey to attain faith, the journey that to him was a search for the meaning of life. Faith as Tolstoy understood it was a way of attaining the “I.” Tolstoy’s theology of freedom is based on mutually exclusive principles: faith is life in the perspective of infinity; it liberates man from the temporariness of this world and thus of the fear of death; Christianity makes a person free because it is based on the sole truth, love as the essence of God and man; love is the motive force of freedom.

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