{"product_id":"gospel-in-brief-the-life-of-jesus-the","title":"Gospel in Brief: The Life of Jesus, The","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eThe Gospel in Brief\u003c\/em\u003e lives at the center of Leo Tolstoy's thinking about the meaning of life. ... Beautifully translated by Dustin Condren. ... Although little known, this book remains hugely important.\" --Jay Parini, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Last Station: A Novel of Tolstoy's Last Year\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe most celebrated novelist of all time, the author of \u003cem\u003eAnna Karenina\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eWar and Peace\u003c\/em\u003e, retells the greatest story ever told, integrating the four Gospels into a single twelve-chapter narrative of the life of Jesus. Based on his study of early Christian texts, Leo Tolstoy's remarkable \u003cem\u003eThe Gospel in Brief\u003c\/em\u003e--virtually unknown to English readers until this landmark new translation by Dustin Condren--makes accessible the powerful, mystical truth of Jesus's spiritual teaching, stripped of artificial church doctrine. If you are not acquainted with \u003cem\u003eThe Gospel in Brief\u003c\/em\u003e, wrote the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, whose life was profoundly influenced by it, then you cannot imagine what an effect it can have upon a person. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A fresh translation destined to introduce a new generation to a fuller understanding of Tolstoy's mind.\" --\u003cem\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Dustin Condren captures, in this fresh idiomatic translation, the dazzlingly audacious achievement of \u003cem\u003eThe Gospel in Brief, \u003c\/em\u003e Tolstoy's daring synthesis the New Testament accounts of Jesus.\" --Edward E. Ericson, Jr., editor of \u003cem\u003eThe Solzhenitsyn Reader\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Newly translated by Dustin Condren, Tolstoy's \u003cem\u003eGospel in Brief\u003c\/em\u003e offers us a Jesus stripped of the overlay of Christian dogma and ancient metaphysics: his Jesus confronts readers with a real challenge and a call to change their lives.\" --George Pattison, Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity, University of Oxford, and canon of Christ Church Cathedral\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":33004979454052,"sku":"9780061993459","price":13.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/suomalainen-test.myshopify.com\/products\/gospel-in-brief-the-life-of-jesus-the","provider":"Suomalainen Test","version":"1.0","type":"link"}