“The whole Christian community,” he began, “has always looked at Christ on the one hand as human and, on the other hand, he has wings and there is an aura about him and he is always in the clouds. So people are reading and they are going to movies looking for both of those things. For humanity on the one hand, but not too much. Because if you give him too much, then somehow he is less divine. [In Kazantzakis’ book] there is a wonderful tension between this being a human being with lots of problems and wrestling with anguish and doubt, and on the other hand, having illusions of grandeur.”
