by Nikos Kazantzakis
WARNING: If you do not like your faith being questioned or dissected, I suggest you stop reading now. There is a high probability you will be offended. I do not have pleasant views regarding religion and I'd hate to hurt your feelings without warning you first. If you choose to discuss Christianity ...
Obviously, the novel re-tells the life of Christ. I doubt anyone doesn't remember the controversy that surrounded the movie, and apparently there was controversy at the book's publishing, too - to the extent that at his death, a Greek Archbishop wouldn't let his body 'lie in state' in his church. Ho...
A sure way to get me to read a book is to ban it. Kazantzakis' Last Temptation of Christ is beautiful. By making Christ have doubts about dying on the cross, by tempting him with a regular family life and sexual attraction, Kazantzakis brings us a very human Jesus. His Jesus is less comic book hero ...
I remember going to see the Willem Defoe version of Kazantzakis' novel when it first came out.I have never quite understood why a certain strain of Christian condemns this book. In the end, the author affirms Christ's divinity and messianic mission.I'm not a Christian myself (though raised Catholic ...
I loved this book! It puzzles me deeply why some Christians didn't like it. Perhaps a statement such as "Christ is both fully divine and fully human" can sometimes sound fine to people as an idea, but we don't want to think through what that means in actuality. We still want to think of Christ as ...
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