Inspired by Christ

Mikhail Naimy

Throughout his literary and intellectual life, Mikhail Naimy was preoccupied with the human predicament of being perpetually torn between the divine, celestial aspect of the self and the earthly, lower one. It almost seemed to him that the only path to salvation from this destructive duality within oneself was to understand how to transcend to pure singularity. Hence, the unique presence Christ had in Naimy's life, both as a writer and as a human being. It was as if Christ, for him, represented the roadmap to that transcendence. In his book "Inspired by Christ," Naimy offers a thoughtful and novel reading of that roadmap, relying on the four Gospels and a lifetime of experience in the companionship of Christ. What truly stands out in Naimy's book are the new intellectual and spiritual dimensions that unfold for him in his personal interpretation of the Nazarene's life and teachings.