Book description
The internationally renowned novel about the life and death of Jesus Christ.
Hailed as a masterpiece by critics worldwide, The Last Temptation of Christ is a monumental reinterpretation of the Gospels that brilliantly fleshes out Christ’s Passion. This literary rendering of the life of Jesus Christ has courted controversy since…
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Martin Scorcese’s adaptation of this novel has long been one of my favorite films—the wonder is that it took me as long as it did to read the source material.
I’m not church-going or part of a specific denomination, but I’m deeply spiritual and have read and appreciated the gospels—the fascinating thing about Kazantzakis’ book is that in it Christ is depicted as a Christian, not as a superbeing or flawless man-god. He has an obsessive need to preach a message of personal salvation coming to him from a transcendent source he doesn’t understand. But he is a flawed searcher,…
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