Novel Theology: Nikos Kazantzakis's Encounter with Whiteheadian Process Theism.(Book Review)

Publication: The Modern Language Review

Publication Date: 01-JUL-03

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Novel Theology: Nikos Kazantzakis's Encounter with Whiteheadian Process Theism. By DARREN J. N. MIDDLETON, with a foreword by PETER BIEN. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press. 2000. xix+256 pp. $39.95. ISBN 0-86554-624-x.

In the foreword to this book Peter Bien, a scholar who has done so much for Nikos Kazantzakis studies, describes Middleton's book as 'the most important new direction in Kazantzakis studies in the last decade' (p. xii). The occasion for this generous praise is an adept piece of interdisciplinary work which aims to 'view Kazantzakis's narrative fiction as a mythopoesis of process thought' (p. xix). After outlining the similarities between Bergson...

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