{"product_id":"gospel-brief-life-jesus-9780061993459-new","title":"The Gospel in Brief: The Life of Jesus","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":"PERENNIAL","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":67611356365090,"sku":"9780061993459-new","price":16.89,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0893\/4755\/5618\/files\/9780061993459.jpg?v=1793065114","url":"https:\/\/www.albakireads.com\/products\/gospel-brief-life-jesus-9780061993459-new","provider":"AlbakiReads","version":"1.0","type":"link"}