Download or read book Kazantzakis and God written by Daniel A. Dombrowski and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1997-10-16 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the concept of God which emerges from the writings of Nikos Kazantzakis and argues that he was a process theist.

Download or read book God s Struggler written by Darren J. N. Middleton and published by Mercer University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 voic

Download or read book Kazantzakis and God written by Daniel A. Dombrowski and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1997-10-16 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not a stage comedy, but an exploration of Greek writer Nikos Kazantzakis' (1883-1957) view of God, specifically of his attempt to develop a view superior to the traditional one. Finds that he chose Plato's approach over Aristotle and that though his theism is heterodox and controversial, it is a combination of views that grow out of solidly orthodox concerns and sources. No subject index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Download or read book The Saviors of God Spiritual Exercises written by Nikos Kazantzakis and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-09-04 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a writer and philosopher, Nikos Kazantzakis struggled all his life with existential questions, once spending several months in a monastery in an attempt to attain a closer relationship with God. His relentless quest to understand the nature of life through travel, extensive reading, and constant conversation with a diverse array of compatriots ultimately led Kazantzakis to compose this book of "spiritual exercises" meant to help the reader achieve harmony between the countervailing human impulses toward an immortality-seeking asceticism and toward a more nihilistic and materialist view of death. As with all Kazantzakis’s philosophical works, The Saviors of God sheds light on a mind uniquely suited to a nuanced examination of what it means to be human, and establishes a hopeful vision for a dazzlingly syncretic approach to spiritual life.

Download or read book The Saviors of God written by Nikos Kazantzakis and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Kazantzakis Philosophical and Theological Thought written by Jerry H. Gill and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-06-20 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the philosophical and theological thought of Nikos Kazantzakis. Kazantzakis is a well-known and highly influential Greek writer, having authored such works as Zorba the Greek and The Last Temptation of Christ, among many others. This volume focuses on the over-arching themes of Kazantzakis’ work, namely the importance of the natural world, the nature of humanity, and the nature of God, by means of an analysis of his major novels and other writings. Along the way attention is given to the views of the important scholars who have interacted with Kazantzakis’s works, including Peter Bien, Darren Middleton, and Daniel Dombrowski.

Download or read book Broken Hallelujah written by Darren J. N. Middleton and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marking the fiftieth anniversary of Kazantzakis's death, author Darren J. N. Middleton looks back on Kazantzakis's life and literary art to suggest that, contrary to popular belief, Kazantzakis and his views actually comport with the ideals of Christianity.

Download or read book Saint Francis written by Nikos Kazantzakis and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-09-04 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like The Last Temptation of Christ, Saint Francis is a fictionalized biography of a widely venerated Christian figure: Francis of Assisi, whose renunciation of his young man’s life of leisure and founding of a religious order dedicated to living in poverty and sharing the Gospels with all living things profoundly influence the ways in which Christians the world over worship and give service to their god even today. Recounted in Nikos Kazantzakis’s striking prose through the eyes of the saint’s brother, Leo, the life of Saint Francis shines in these pages as a heroic example of inspirational leadership and boundless love for God and all His creatures.

Download or read book Nikos Kazantzakis and God written by James Alois Heiar and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Report to Greco written by Nikos Kazantzakis and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-09-18 with total page 573 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disarmingly personal and intensely philosophical, Report to Greco is a fictionalized account of Greek philosopher and writer Nikos Kazantzakis’s own life, a sort of intellectual autobiography that leads readers through his wide-ranging observations on everything from the Hegelian dialectic to the nature of human existence, all framed as a report to the Spanish Renaissance painter El Greco. The assuredness of Kazantzakis’s prose and the nimbleness of his thinking as he grapples with life’s essential questions—who are we, and how should we be in the world?—will inspire awe and more than a little reflection from readers seeking to answer these questions for themselves.

Download or read book Dialogic Openness in Nikos Kazantzakis written by Charitini Christodoulou and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Charitini Christodoulou argues that a certain perception of openness that she calls â oedialogicâ permeates Nikos Kazantzakisâ (TM) The Last Temptation. Partly based on Umberto Ecoâ (TM)s theory in Opera Aperta and Mikhail Bakhtinâ (TM)s notion of dialogism, the term â oedialogic opennessâ refers to the idea of antithetical forces clashing and thus revealing different forms of tension that are not resolved at the end of the novel. Thus, it is shown that subjectivity and meaning is always in the process of becoming. The different aspects of identity formation unfold before the eyes of the reader, who becomes a witness to the leading charactersâ (TM) process of becoming. Christodoulou demonstrates that there are dialogic elements in tension, which can only be brought forth not as a synthesis, such as the stylistics of a genre implies, but as openness perceived as a process of identity formation.

Download or read book God s Pauper written by Nikos Kazantzakis and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Creative Destruction written by Lewis Owens and published by Mercer University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Owens (religious studies, Canterbury Christ Church U. College) seeks to clarify the philosophical and religious views of playwright, journalist, and novelist Kazantzakis (1883-1957), arguing that his religious philosophy led him to transcend both communism and nihilism enroute to a union with god. Annotation (c) Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (bookn

Download or read book The Greek Passion written by Nikos Kazantzakis and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Zorba the Greek written by Nikos Kazantzakis and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1996-12-20 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stimulating excursion into the sunnier areas of the human spirit.

Download or read book Tempted by Happiness written by Peter Bien and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Novel Theology written by Darren J. N. Middleton and published by Mercer University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literature and theology constantly (de)construct each other. Suggesting that this (de)constructive assignment is one that cannot but be "in process itself," Middleton returns to it throughout his study.".