This book brings together an impressive collection of essays on this ferociously imaginative and incredibly idiosyncratic Greek novelist, poet, and philosopher. The editors see Nikos Kazantzakis as a man obsessed with finding spiritual meaning. In a variety of literary genres, he tried to re-imagine God, the Incarnation, human nature, the sanctification of the world, and the passion of faith.
In this volume, scholars compare and contrast Kazantzakis's always evolving spiritual views with those of Martin Luther, Soren Kierkegaard, William Blake, and Alfred North Whitehead. His iconoclastic vision is also assessed in light of Greek Orthodoxy, Protestantism, and literary scholarship. Editors Middleton and Bien successfully relate this Greek seeker's arduous spiritual journey to the burgeoning worldwide interest in mysticism and the resacralization of the world.