| 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 Churchs battle against Judaism and faces the crisis of faith it has sparked in his own life as a Catholic. Fascinating, brave and sometimes infuriating (Time), this dark history is more than a chronicle of religion. It is the central tragedy of Western civilization, its fault lines reaching deep into our culture. Drawing on his well-known talents as a storyteller and memoirist, Carroll has created a deeply felt work, a book that measures the sweep of history against [his] experience as a man of the church (San Francisco Chronicle). A courageous and affecting reckoning with difficult truths that will touch every reader, CONSTANTINE'S SWORD is a history written to change the way people live (Talk). |
