I closed that book for the final time and looked up and suddenly loved those rusty, white-aging-to-yellow lockers on the wall, my soggy peanut butter and jelly sandwich, and all that my journey touched. This depressing motel, splitting a bedroom and rent with my in-college brother, the heaviness of winter - this innate call into the unknown I had answered with the past five years of my life, “it brought me here?” I couldn’t help but ask myself.īut the way Kazantzakis’s Jesus profoundly struggles, doubts, and ultimately overcomes in those five hundred pages… it was a molotov cocktail defiantly hucked into the waning fires of my spirit. Often with only a dozen or so guests to check-in each three to eleven PM shift, there was a lot of downtime.Īt the time, I was particularly feeling the weight of the path I had chosen to walk in life. "Spiritual dynamite." - San Francisco Chronicle "A searing, soaring, shocking novel.Along with many other books that winter, I read The Last Temptation of Christ in the silent, fluorescent, faded breakroom of a Flagstaff, Arizona motel. In elegant, thoughtful prose Nikos Kazantzakis, one of the greats of modern literature, follows this Jesus as he struggles to live out God's will for him, powerfully suggesting that it was Christ's ultimate triumph over his flawed humanity, when he gave up the temptation to run from the cross and willingly laid down his life for mankind, that truly made him the venerable redeemer of men. He is a figure who is gloriously divine but earthy and human, a man like any other-subject to fear, doubt, and pain. This literary rendering of the life of Jesus Christ has courted controversy since its publication by depicting a Christ far more human than the one seen in the Bible.
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.
The internationally renowned novel about the life and death of Jesus Christ.
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