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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... meaning : Yes , may God forgive me , but the letters of the alphabet frighten me terribly . They are sly , shameless demons — and dangerous ! You open the inkwell , release them : they run off - and how will you ever get control of them ...
... meaning : Yes , may God forgive me , but the letters of the alphabet frighten me terribly . They are sly , shameless demons — and dangerous ! You open the inkwell , release them : they run off - and how will you ever get control of them ...
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... meaning . An instructive example of such totalization is Tillich's notion of God as Being - Itself which , according to postmodernists , functions for Tillich as a “ pure signified ” —an ontologically independent Reality that depends ...
... meaning . An instructive example of such totalization is Tillich's notion of God as Being - Itself which , according to postmodernists , functions for Tillich as a “ pure signified ” —an ontologically independent Reality that depends ...
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... meaning of his life , to say nothing of the doctrines that encrusted him , disclosed the meaning of our own lives : The God - man , who during his life stood before his contemporaries as an in- dividual distinct from themselves , and ...
... meaning of his life , to say nothing of the doctrines that encrusted him , disclosed the meaning of our own lives : The God - man , who during his life stood before his contemporaries as an in- dividual distinct from themselves , and ...
Contents
Connections | 45 |
Kazantzakis and Process Theology | 83 |
Kazantzakis and Postmodern Theology | 101 |
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