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Title: Constantine’s Sword: The Church and the Jews–A History
Author: James Carroll
ISBN: 9780618219087
Publisher: Mariner Books
Published: 2002
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Condition Note: Clean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.
Publisher : A bold and moving book tracing the two-thousand-year course of the Church’s battle against Judaism by National Book Award-winning author James Carroll.
More than a chronicle of religion, this dark history is the central tragedy of Western civilization. The Church’s failure to protest the Holocaust–the infamous “silence” of Pius XII–is only part of the story: the death camps, Carroll shows, are the culmination of a long, entrenched tradition of anti-Judaism. From Gospel accounts of the death of Jesus on the cross, to Constantine’s transformation of the cross into a sword, to the rise of blood libels, scapegoating, and modern anti-Semitism, Carroll reconstructs the dramatic story of the Church’s conflict not only with Jews but with itself. Constantine’s Sword is a brave and affecting reckoning with difficult truths that will touch every reader.
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