Review: Constantine's Sword: The Church and the Jews, A History
Nutzerbericht - Jonele - GoodreadsA very thorough history of the relationship between the church and the Jews. It was a difficult read for me, but I have a better sense now of the progression of scripture and how Christian societies ... Vollständige Rezension lesen
Review: Constantine's Sword: The Church and the Jews, A History
Nutzerbericht - Rob McFarren - GoodreadsWhile the book is easy to read and so is interesting, I was in an Early Church History class at the same time as reading this book, and many of the inaccuracies or opinions of the author came forward ... Vollständige Rezension lesen
Review: Constantine's Sword: The Church and the Jews, A History
Nutzerbericht - Andrew - GoodreadsThis book is entirely missable. There are other more informed, better-argued works - such as Jacob Burckhardt (19th cent.) and Timothy Barnes (present day) - who believe Constantine was a political ... Vollständige Rezension lesen
Review: Constantine's Sword: The Church and the Jews, A History
Nutzerbericht - Eddy Allen - GoodreadsNovelist, cultural critic, and former priest James Carroll marries history with memoir as he maps the two-thousand-year course of the Church's battle against Judaism and faces the crisis of faith it ... Vollständige Rezension lesen
Review: Constantine's Sword: The Church and the Jews, A History
Nutzerbericht - Tom Lombardo - GoodreadsIn this book James Carroll combines a great deal of historical analysis with a personal narrative about his crisis of consciousness regarding his Catholic faith. He does not delve too deeply into an ... Vollständige Rezension lesen
Review: Constantine's Sword: The Church and the Jews, A History
Nutzerbericht - Scott Wojtalik-courter - GoodreadsI found this book compelling though biased, though that may not be the word for which I'm searching. Clearly James Carroll had an agenda, or at least motivation for writing this tome, and clearly that ... Vollständige Rezension lesen
Review: Constantine's Sword: The Church and the Jews, A History
Nutzerbericht - Chris Pederson - GoodreadsWhen I hear conservatives, or anyone, say 'Judeo-Christian...' it makes me kind of ill. For me it started a little slow because he kept talking about how this affected his life. I wanted to know the history. But you get there. Vollständige Rezension lesen
Review: Constantine's Sword: The Church and the Jews, A History
Nutzerbericht - Nick - GoodreadsConstantine's Sword rocked my world, despite the author's writing too much about himself (to be fair, his background is unusual and very interesting – he lived in post-war Germany because his father ... Vollständige Rezension lesen
Review: Constantine's Sword: The Church and the Jews, A History
Nutzerbericht - Sarah Finch - GoodreadsIt's difficult to process my thoughts about this book I'm giving it five stars more because of how deeply felt it was and how deeply it made me feel. But given that it's a book about how the Church ... Vollständige Rezension lesen
Review: Constantine's Sword: The Church and the Jews, A History
Nutzerbericht - G - GoodreadsCourageous in the face of a military establishment father, Carroll examines the secrets Rome uses to hold Catholics in harness. Devotion to fraudulent relics is a theme examined by Tolstoy in 1893, but Carroll brings new zest to the bogus discoveries nonetheless. Vollständige Rezension lesen
