Inessa Medzhibovskaya - Tolstoy and the Religious Culture of His Time.jpg

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My concern in this study is to explore the origin, progress, and result of a seemingly sudden change that took place in Tolstoy the novelist’s psyche in the mid-1870s, namely, his conversion. Religious conversion in the age of modernity is not an especially well understood phenomenon. Is it a process or a transport, divine illumination or conscious effort? A change for the better once and for all, or a meandering narrow path, a long road to Damascus? The pattern of St. Paul’s conversion will hardly help to explain that of Tolstoy. He had no revelatory experiences similar to St. Paul’s or Luther’s “tower experience” [Turmerlebnis] or Augustine’s encounter with the divine presence in the Roman garden or Aquinas’s experience on the Feast of St. Nicholas in 1273. He did not enjoy a life-altering acquaintance like Pascal’s with Jansenius.

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