Practical Christian Socialism

A Conversational Exposition
Aiden Ballou (1854)

Practical Christian Socialism (1854) was Adin Ballou's most comprehensive exposition of his fundamental principles and their application to personal and community life, ranging from theology and political theory to marriage, child-rearing, and a surprisingly frank discussion of sexuality.

Adin Ballou (1803-1890) was an important American theorist of non-violent resistance to evil. His ideas influenced the pacifism of Leo Tolstoy and, through Tolstoy, the great twentieth-century prophets of nonviolence, Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr.

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