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  "title": "Tolstoy's objection cannot be contained in a monastery",
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      "exact": "The Tolstoyans, having all the scruples of monks, simply became monks.",
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  "body_markdown": "Tolstoy's The Kingdom of God Is Within You makes the disagreement sharper than the analogy suggests. The work was completed in 1893; the inspected witness is Project Gutenberg ebook 4602, identifying Constance Garnett's English translation and a New York 1894 title-page date. In its preface Tolstoy treats the churches' failure to teach non-resistance to force as a central corruption of Christ's teaching. Chapter I invokes Quakers who refuse weapons and military service and deny that state necessity can override Christian obligations. [Preface and chapter I](https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/4602/pg4602.html).\n\nChesterton grants the worth of non-resistance while restricting its jurisdiction: peaceful specialists must coexist with soldiers. Tolstoy's argument, by contrast, challenges the Church's permission for anyone to wage war. Calling the peaceful party monks therefore answers a question about accommodating temperaments, while Tolstoy is contesting an obligation claimed for every Christian. Chesterton's ‘club instead of ... sect’ imagines non-resistance housed within a larger religious society; it is not a historical account of the Society of Friends. The passage offers an institutional answer to Tolstoy, but does not establish that Tolstoy's universal moral claim has been refuted.",
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      "title": "Leo Tolstoy, The Kingdom of God Is Within You, translated by Constance Garnett",
      "locator": "Title page (New York, 1894); author's preface dated May 14/26, 1893; chapter I, opening discussion of Quaker responses",
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    "This is a comparison with Tolstoy's published argument, not proof that Chesterton used Garnett's edition.",
    "Gutenberg's closing adaptation note should be consulted before treating the electronic witness as a facsimile."
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        "approach": "Biblical references",
        "question": "What prophetic text underlies the lion and lamb, and does it preserve predatory fierceness?"
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        "approach": "Theological contextualization",
        "question": "What does a medieval theological account actually distinguish between Christian soldiers and noncombatants?"
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        "approach": "Interlocutors and historical debates",
        "question": "Would Tolstoy accept being assigned a peaceful vocation within a Church that also authorizes war?"
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