Lenin's gospels

Title: Lenin's gospels
Creator: Boer, Roland
Relation: Biblical Interpretation Vol. 22, Issue 3, p. 325-345
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685152-00223P05
Publisher: Brill
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2014
Description: Lenin and the Gospels: This surprising conjunction is the focus of this article. Virtually unknown is the fact that Lenin was fond of citing, quoting, interpreting and appropriating in an innovative fashion the parables and sayings found in the mouth of Jesus. This study begins by analyzing the organizing parable of the tares and wheat in Lenin’s crucial early text, What Is To Be Done? (1902). From there it moves to consider his wider engagements with the Gospels, again with an emphasis on parables and sayings such as the sower, the narrow gate and path, the lost shepherd and the good shepherd. Apart from exploring the permutations of Lenin’s interpretations, a crucial question is why he should do so. The key lies in the earthy, agricultural nature of these preferred parables and the worldviews constructed by peasants and workers in revolutionary Russia. 
Subject: gospels; parables; organization; revolution; agriculture; peasants; Lenin
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1301338
Identifier: uon:20261
Identifier: ISSN:0927-2569
Language: eng
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