Constantine's Sword · The Church and the Jews

“A rare book that combines searing passion with a subject that has affected all of our lives.”—-Chicago Tribune

Novelist, cultural critic & former priest James Carroll marries history with memoir as he maps the 2000-year course of the Church’s battle against Judaism & faces the crisis of faith it has sparked in his own life. “Fascinating, brave & sometimes infuriating” (*Time*), this dark history is more than a chronicle of religion. It's the central tragedy of Western civilization, its fault lines reaching deep into our culture to create “a deeply felt work” (*San Francisco Chronicle*) as Carroll wrangles with centuries of strife & tragedy to reach a courageous & affecting reckoning with difficult truths.