CONTENTS

Acknowledgements………………………………………………………

Introduction………………………………………………………………

Chapter I. Tolstoy Records His Religious Crisis………………………..

1. Remembering Childhood...................................................

2. Tolstoy at Prayer..................................................................

3. Faith in Literary Art Versus Faith in God...........................

4. Remembering Depression....................................................

5. Guilt and Self-Reproach........................................................

6. Boundary Issues and the Eucharist......................................

7. The Inconclusive Dream.......................................................

Chapter II. Tolstoy Attacks the Russian Orthodox Church………………

8. Rejecting Mother Church with a Vengeance.........................

9. The Narcissism of a Quasi-Theologian..................................

Chapter III. Tolstoy Tells Us What He Believes…………………………

10. Tolstoy and Christ...................................................................

11. Nonresistance to Evil.............................................................

12. Tolstoy’s Holy Foolishness...................................................

13. Back to the Other Cheek.......................................................

14. Masochism and the Sadism of Misogyny..............................

15. Responses to Tolstoyan Nonresistance..................................

16. The Power of Death................................................................

17. Death and the Collective……………………………………..

18. The Denial of Death................................................................

19. Narcissistic Credo....................................................................

Chapter IV. Pantheistic Finale…………………………………………..

20. Grandiosity and Boundaries.....................................................

21. Tolstoy’s Maternal Pantheism..................................................

Notes...........................................................................................................

Bibliography...............................................................................................

Index ……………………………………………………………………..