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.
REVIEWS: 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).
