Reading Kazantzakis in the United States: A Christian Theological Perspective

Two rising Movement Is within U.S. Christianity may symbolize religion's return in our time. Fascination with Eastern Orthodoxy, for example, especially among today's. young and the restless, has prompted some scholars to wonder if the twenty-first will be the Orthodox century. Something is also afoot in the so-called Emoging Church, one of the most intriguing developments within recent Evangelicalism. Like Nikos Kazantzakis before them, such contemporary Christians promote chastened epistemology, storytelling's iniporlance, postsystematic thinking, mystoy as well as divine Otherness, an incarnational way of doing theology and salvation as deification. Although Kazantzakis may not be viewed as a Christian, his life and literary art show him to be an ally in the struggle.tbr religious truth in the world, and now, on the fiftieth annivercaly of his death, and here, in the U.S., where his work has suffered hostile reception in the past, Orthodox and Emetging Church Christians are urged to read him carefully and charitably.