The Christ of Kazantzakis is not a return to the traditional Christian understanding and can only be understood in terms of Kazantzakis's own life and thought.

However much Greek tragedy was concerned with fate, it was more deeply concerned with the ways of men, the failures and achievements of human freedom.

Although Ralph Adams Cram seemed part-Jeremiah, part-Cassandra, and part Miniver Cheevy, he ultimately forged a synthesis between his medievalism and the needs of his own society.