"In the film, Carroll demystifies the Church without
condescending to it, dispassionately recounting the terrible fate
Jews have faced at the Hands of Christians." Los Angeles
Times
內容簡介:
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 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.
關於作者:
James Carroll was raised in Washington, DC. and was ordained
to the Catholic priesthood in 1969. He served as a chaplain at
Boston University from 1969 to 1974, and then left the priesthood
to become a writer. His memoir AN AMERICAN REQUIEM won the National
Book Award for Non-fiction in 1996. His New York Times Bestseller
CONSTANTINE''S SWORD is now the subject of an acclaimed documentary.
James Carroll resided in Boston, Massachusetts.