Scandalizing Jesus?: Kazantzakis's The Last Temptation of Christ Fifty Years OnDarren J. N. Middleton Bloomsbury Publishing USA, 3.11.2005 г. - 288 страници 2005 marks the fiftieth anniversary of Nikos Kazantzakis' The Last Temptation of Christ. Since Kazantzakis ranks as one of the twentieth century's most important European writers, and given that this particular work of his has garnered so much publicity, this collection of essays re-assesses the novel, though not forgetting the movie, in light of one half century's worth of criticism and reception history. Clergy and laity alike have denounced this novel. When it first appeared, the Greek Orthodox Church condemned it, the Vatican placed it on its Index of Forbidden Texts, and conservative-evangelicals around the world protested its allegedly blasphemous portrayal of a human, struggling Messiah who "succumbs" to the devil's final snare while on the Cross: the temptation to happiness. Assuredly, the sentiments surrounding this novel, at least in the first thirty years or so, were very strong. When Martin Scorcese decided in the early 1980s to adapt the novel for the silver screen, even stronger feelings were expressed. Even today his works are seldom studied in Greece, largely because the Greek government is unable or unwilling to anthologize his material for the national curriculum. After fifty years, however, the time seems right to re-examine the novel, the man, and the film, locating Kazantzakis and his work within an important debate about the relationship between religion and art (literary and cinematic). Until now a book-length assessment of Kazantzakis' novel, and the film it inspired, has not appeared. No such volume is planned to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the novel's publication. For those who work in Kazantzakis studies, a focused anthology like this one is missing from library collections. The volume contains original essays by Martin Scorcese, the film critic Peter Chattaway, and Kazantzakis' translator, Peter A. Bien. |
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... Churches of Christ in the USA . Used by permission . All rights reserved . Text from The Last Temptation of Christ by Nikos Kazantzakis used by permission of Dr. Patroclos Stavrou , Kazantzakis Publications , Athens , Greece . Cover art ...
... Churches of Christ in the USA . Used by permission . All rights reserved . Text from The Last Temptation of Christ by Nikos Kazantzakis used by permission of Dr. Patroclos Stavrou , Kazantzakis Publications , Athens , Greece . Cover art ...
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... Church , and the historically evolving picture of reality that underlies all modern culture since Hegel . Cosmology ... Church's insistence on Jesus ' full humanity , how are we to think about Jesus ' human subjectivity — including his ...
... Church , and the historically evolving picture of reality that underlies all modern culture since Hegel . Cosmology ... Church's insistence on Jesus ' full humanity , how are we to think about Jesus ' human subjectivity — including his ...
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... Church , and the interests of the clerical profession . All of this means that their work is much less interesting to the general public , and less interesting to me , too , than the work of figures like Kazantza- kis . Fifty years ago ...
... Church , and the interests of the clerical profession . All of this means that their work is much less interesting to the general public , and less interesting to me , too , than the work of figures like Kazantza- kis . Fifty years ago ...
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... Church's official teaching ( both Orthodox and Catholic ) .5 Hostilities culminated with the Greek publication of The Last Tempta- tion in 1955. While most of Kazantzakis's texts courted controversy , The Last Temp- tation was the only ...
... Church's official teaching ( both Orthodox and Catholic ) .5 Hostilities culminated with the Greek publication of The Last Tempta- tion in 1955. While most of Kazantzakis's texts courted controversy , The Last Temp- tation was the only ...
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... Church . He holds that Kazantzakis's Jesus models the concept of theandric union as framed but not fully articulated by the ecumenical councils . Roderick Beaton then turns us toward a more non - Christian reading of The Last Temptation ...
... Church . He holds that Kazantzakis's Jesus models the concept of theandric union as framed but not fully articulated by the ecumenical councils . Roderick Beaton then turns us toward a more non - Christian reading of The Last Temptation ...
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