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Constantine's Sword: The Church and the Jews -- A History
Constantine's Sword The Church and the Jews -- A History
Author: James Carroll
In this "rare book that combines searing passion . . . with a subject that has affected all of our lives" (Chicago Tribune), the novelist and cultural critic James Carroll maps the two-thousand-year course of the Church"s battle against Judaism and faces the crisis of faith it has sparked in his own life as a Catholic. "Fascinating, brave and so...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780618219087
ISBN-10: 0618219080
Publication Date: 4/1/2001
Pages: 768
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Publisher: Mariner Books
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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Against the background of a Christian presence at Auchwitz, Carroll traces a complex relationship between Christians, Jews and Antisemitism in 2000 years of Christian history. A personalized and idiosyncratic history rather than a diadactic one.

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It was not an easy read, but 100% definitely enlightening... WHEW!!!


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