Was the historical Jesus an anarchist?^153- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, ‘Der Antichrist’, in Nietzsches Werke:
Der Fall Wagner; Götzen-Dämmerung; Nietzsche contra Wagner; Der
Antichrist; Gedichte (Leipzig: C. G. Naumann, 1895), viii, 211–313. - See, for example, Nicolai Berdyaev, Slavery and Freedom (New
York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1944), pp. 140–148. - See, for example, Leo Tolstoy, ‘The Kingdom of God Is within You’:
Christianity Not as a Mystic Religion but as a New Theory of Life,
trans. by Constance Garnett, 2 vols. (London: William Heinemann,
1894). However, it is important to note that Tolstoy did not explicitly
call Jesus an “anarchist”. This is probably explained by the close associ-
ation between anarchism and violence in Tolstoy’s mind, something that
almost certainly accounts for his reticence in using the label for himself
too. See Brian Morris, Ecology and Anarchism: Essays and Reviews on
Contemporary Thought (Malvern: Images Publishing, 1996), p. 159. - Likewise, Wilde did not use the term “anarchist” for Jesus but that
he believed him to be such is a reasonable inference from such works
as The Soul of Man Under Socialism (London: Privately Printed,
1891), in which Jesus is presented as the model of socialist individual-
ism. See Kristian Williams, ‘The Soul of Man Under . . .Anarchism?’,
New Politics, 8 (2011) http://newpol.org/content/soul-man-under-
anarchism [accessed 31 July 2015]. For the anarchism of Wilde see
David Goodway, Anarchist Seeds Beneath the Snow: Left-libertarian
Thought and British Writers from William Morris to Colin Ward,
2nd edn (Oakland: PM Press, 2011), pp. 62–92. - Mary C. Segers, ‘Equality and Christian Anarchism: The Political
and Social Ideas of the Catholic Worker Movement’, The Review
of Politics, 40 (1978), 196–230 and Frederick Boehrer, ‘Christian
Anarchism and the Catholic Worker Movement: Roman Catholic
Authority and Identity in the United States’ (unpublished PhD, New
York: Syracuse University, 2001). - See http://www.jesusradicals.com (accessed 31 July 2015).
- Charlotte Alston, Tolstoy and His Disciples: The History of a
Radical International Movement (London: I.B. Tauris, 2014). - See, for example, the official website of the Union of the Spiritual
Communities of Christ, the main body of Doukhobors today (http://
http://www.usccdoukhobors.org/faq.htm#faq2. Accessed 31^ July 2015).