Resistance to Evil by Force

Resistance to Evil by Force

“On Resistance to Evil by Force”
is one of the most important tracts composed by the white émigré philosopher Ivan Alexandrovich Ilyin. Responding to the pacifist pretensions of Count Leo Tolstoy, Ilyin mounts a tenacious defense of the Orthodox tradition of physical opposition to evil. As he explains, in the face of evil that can be contained by no other means, a forceful response is not only permissible but becomes a knightly duty. Moreover, heroic courage consists not only in recognizing this duty but also in bearing its heavy moral burden without fear.”

“In his own time, Ilyin penned this guide for the exiled Russian White Army in its continued resistance against the godless Bolsheviks, yet while the world has developed since the civil war which he lived through, Christians everywhere can still find great relevance in his words, for the same evil continues its designs through other means and under other names. Translated here into English for the first time, On Resistance to Evil by Force is destined to become a classic of Christian ethics.”

“This is the spiritual law: the non-resistor to evil is absorbed by it and becomes possessed."

Written in 1925 during the Bolshevik (Jewish) occupation of Russia

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