This book offers a most original approach to Jesus Christ’s life journey towards the painful and profound understanding of his dual substance – that he is fully divine as much as fully human. In Kazatzakis’ masterpiece The Last Temptation of Christ, two apparently opposite forces – the flesh and the spirit – mercilessly clash, intertwine, as much as remain in a state of potentiality. His book The Last Temptation of Christ (first published in 1955) was condemned by the Orthodox Church and was placed on the Vatican’s Index of Forbidden Texts, because of its allegedly blasphemous portrayal of Christ as a man with human frailties, yielding for a moment to a thought that flashed into his mind while upon the Cross : what if he had chosen the path of mortal happiness?…
Like most creative geniuses, Kazantzakis had to carry the cross of censorship. Nikos Kazantzakis ranks as one of the most important European writers of the 20th century. ― Nikos Kazantzakis, “The Last Temptation of Christ”.
“The doors of heaven and hell are adjacent, and identical”. “If I were fire, I would burn if I were a woodcutter, I would strike.
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