The Kingdom of God Is Within You: who's who, timeline and places
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- American QuakersAmerican Quakers send letters and publications arguing that Christianity forbids war and violent self-defense.First seen in chapter 1
- BallouBallou writes that nonresistance opposes wrongdoing without returning harm and challenges Christian service to the state.First seen in chapter 1
- GarrisonGarrison’s declaration rejects armed force, political office, and coercive legal action.First seen in chapter 1
- Garrison’s sonGarrison’s son sends his father’s declaration rejecting armed force and political office.First seen in chapter 1
- TolstoyTolstoy examines religious and secular objections to his account of Christ’s teaching against violence.First seen in chapter 2
- ChristChrist gives commands that Tolstoy cites against violence toward wrongdoers or in defense of others.First seen in chapter 2
- GodGod is present within the soul, and awareness of this presence gives rise to unlimited love.First seen in chapter 4
- Maxime du CampMaxime du Camp offers proposals that the narrator challenges while discussing educated responses to war.First seen in chapter 6
- CapriviCaprivi makes a statement about fighting socialism that illustrates armies protecting governments against their subjects.First seen in chapter 7
- The soldiersThe soldiers provide armed force through which governments maintain their power.First seen in chapter 8
- The peasantsThe peasants flog one another in an example of people supporting their own oppression.First seen in chapter 9
- Chapter 1
The narrator surveys writings on Christian nonresistance and argues that governments and many liberals suppress this challenge to their authority.
- Chapter 2
Tolstoy examines religious and secular defenses of violence and rejects exceptions allowing force against wrongdoers or in defense of others.
- Chapter 3
The narrator argues that churches replace continual growth in truth and love with claims of complete, exclusive knowledge.
- Chapter 4
The narrator distinguishes an infinite Christian ideal from enforceable rules and connects unlimited love with awareness of God within the soul.
- Chapter 5
The argument presents exploitation, unjust laws, and preparations for war as conflicts with Christian conscience that demand practical changes.
- Chapter 6
The narrator challenges diplomatic reform, acceptance of war as inevitable, and praise of war for evading individual responsibility.
- Chapter 7
The speaker argues that compulsory military service destroys the security the state claims to provide and forces citizens to examine obedience.
- Chapter 8
The narrator identifies intimidation, corruption, mental conditioning, and armed soldiers as connected methods through which governments maintain power.
- Chapter 9
Accounts of people refusing oaths, taxes, police duties, trials, and military service illustrate how conscientious refusal challenges state authority.
- Chapter 10
The argument rejects government violence as protection against evil and presents Christian conscience and public opinion as sources of moral progress.
- Chapter 11
The narrator describes officials refusing coercive duties and argues that changing public opinion can remove violent institutions’ authority.
- Chapter 12
The narrator encounters troops enforcing a disputed forest judgment against starving peasants and describes a brutal punishment in Orel.
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- OrelOrel is a place where the narrator describes a brutal punishment.First seen in chapter 12
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