THIS short exposition of the Gospel is a summary of a large work which exists in manuscript and cannot be published in Russia. That work consists of four parts:
- An account (Confession) of the course of my own life and of the thoughts which led me to the conviction that the Christian teaching contains the truth.
- An examination of the Christian teaching: first according to its interpretation by the Orthodox Russo-Greek Church, then according to its interpretation by the Church in general-by the Apostles, the Councils, the so-called Fathers of the Church-and an exposure of what is false in those interpretations.
- An examination of Christian teaching not according to those interpretations but solely according to what has come down to us of Christ’s teaching, as ascribed to him in the Gospels.
- An exposition of