God's Struggler

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Argues that while Nikos Kazantzakis may have occupied the so-called borderlands between belief and unbelief throughout much of his career, he nonetheless possessed, or was possessed by, an intense awareness of the sacred. These 11 essays analyze in detail Kazantzakis's lifelong struggle to give voice to his understanding of God<-->especially as it was informed by elements of Bergsonism, Nietzcheanism, and Buddhism. The authors demonstrate the wealth of spiritual insight in his writing. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780865544994
  • Publisher: Mercer University Press
  • Publication date: 6/1/1996
  • Pages: 252
  • Product dimensions: 6.00 (w) x 9.00 (h) x 0.69 (d)

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Contributors
Prologue
1 Introduction: Spiritual Levendia: Kazantzakis's Theology of Struggle 1
2 Christ, Kazantzakis, and Controversy in Greece 23
3 Nikos Kazantzakis: Orthodox Or Heterodox? A Greek Orthodox Appreciation 37
4 The Orthodox Sources of The Saviors of God 53
5 Kazantzakis and Mysticism 71
6 Saviors of God: Soteriological Motifs in the Theologies of Kazantzakis and Luther 93
7 Kazantzakis's Long Apprenticeship to Christian Themes 113
8 'Dwindling Down the Shore': Christology in the Odyssey 133
9 Christ's Jungian Shadow in The Last Temptation 153
10 Kazantzakis and Kierkegaard: Some Comparisons and Contrasts 169
11 Vagabond or Companion? Kazantzakis and Whitehead on God 189
References 213
Index 223
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