The message preached by Jesus of Nazareth, the Son of God, that the essence of the gospel is the deliverance of humanity from its perpetual self-destructive trend of warfare and the many sufferings that result from it. This book will also unveil that his message consisted of peaceful coexistence and toleration between people and nations. Evidence will also be provided to the reader to testify that the only proper manner for a Christian to conduct himself in the matter of war and military service is to refuse. The author, Daniel H. Shubin has written in the past a theology and a commentary on...

Aleksander Mikhailovich Dobrolubov was a successor to a long line of wanderers or pilgrims in Russia's history. Such people abandoned their secular associates, means of income, permanent home, family, and subjection to the state, and departed into society as religious nomads, working wherever work would be offered them. This was their moral self-perfection, Christian self-realization, departure from sin and attainment of holiness. Dobrolubov was Russia's mystic pilgrim, preaching his version of Christian spirituality in central Russia, Siberia and central Asia, during the early years of...

RUSSIA'S WISDOM is a Survey and Collection of Russian Philosophic, Religious and Political Thought, Aphorisms, and Concepts, from Its Greatest Thinkers throughout Its Entire History. No country in the world has the depth of thought as does Russia, and over such a length of time - 1,000 years - from its earliest Kievan Grand Princes to the conclusion of the Soviet Union. Over 100 of Russia's greatest thinkers are included with a biography and summary of convictions. Almost 4,000 paragraphs of thoughts, aphorisms, maxims, meditations, and monologues, have been selected. From the most serious of...