Tolstoy’s definition of “faith” is vague: he sees it as a fundamentally irrational “knowledge of the meaning of human life.” What’s clear, though, is his belief that faith ties an individual to something larger or even “infinite” that lies beyond the self. “No matter what answers a given faith might provide for us,” he writes, “every answer of faith gives infinite meaning to the finite existence of man, meaning that is not destroyed by suffering, deprivation, and death.”
