Broken Hallelujah: Nikos Kazantzakis and Christian TheologyMarking 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. |
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Page 72
... reality as charged with God's sacra- mental presence and , at the novel's end , emerges from the last dream se- quence to effect , at last , mystical " union with God " by learning how to lib- erate spirit from matter : No , no , he was ...
... reality as charged with God's sacra- mental presence and , at the novel's end , emerges from the last dream se- quence to effect , at last , mystical " union with God " by learning how to lib- erate spirit from matter : No , no , he was ...
Page 74
... Reality : An Essay in Cosmology , Whitehead describes how the consequent nature of God acts both by prehending and being pre- hended . 54 The divine prehends positively those deeds that involve us in en- terprise and verve . At the same ...
... Reality : An Essay in Cosmology , Whitehead describes how the consequent nature of God acts both by prehending and being pre- hended . 54 The divine prehends positively those deeds that involve us in en- terprise and verve . At the same ...
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... Reality , I said to myself , does not exist independent of man , completed and ready ; it comes about with man's collaboration , and it is proportionate to man's worth . If we open a riverbed by writing or acting [ notice the artistic ...
... Reality , I said to myself , does not exist independent of man , completed and ready ; it comes about with man's collaboration , and it is proportionate to man's worth . If we open a riverbed by writing or acting [ notice the artistic ...
Contents
Connections | 45 |
Kazantzakis and Process Theology | 83 |
Kazantzakis and Postmodern Theology | 101 |
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