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Author Carroll, James, 1943-

Title Constantine's sword : the church and the Jews : a history / James Carroll.

Publication Info. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2001.

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 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  261.26 CARROLL c.2  DUE 10-13-22 Billed
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Non Fiction  261.06 CAR    Check Shelf
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 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  261.06 C23    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  261.06 CARROLL    Check Shelf

Description xii, 756 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [628]-719) and index.
Contents Machine generated contents note: PART ONE -- The Cross at Auschwitz -- 1. Sign of Folly 3 -- 2. Stumbling Block to Jews 13 -- 3. The Journey 19 -- 4. My Mother's Clock 24 -- 5. Passion Play 31 -- 6. My Rabbi 37 -- 7. Between Past and Future 58 -- PART TWO -- New Testament Origins of Jew Hatred -- 8. My Great-Uncle 67 -- 9. Jesus, a Jew? 71 -- 10. The Threshold Stone 89 -- 11. Destroy This Temple loo -- 12. The Healing Circle 122 -- 13. Paul, the Martyr of Shalom 135 -- 14. Parting of the Ways 144 -- 15. The Lachrymose Tradition: A Cautionary Note 150 -- PART THREE -- Constantine, Augustine, and the Jews -- 16. The Heart of This Story Is a Place 155 -- 17. The Story of Constantine 165 -- 18. The Cross and the Religious Imagination 172 -- 19. The Vision of Constantine 178 -- 20. The True Cross 195 -- 21. Augustine Trembling 208 -- 22. The Seamless Robe 220 -- 23. The Danger of Ambivalence 229 -- PART FOUR -- From Crusades to Conversionism -- 24. The War of the Cross 237 -- 25. The Incident in Trier 246 -- 26. Mainz Anonymous 257 -- 27. The Blood Libel 268 -- 28. Anselm: Why God Became Man 278 -- 29. Abelard and Heloise 290 -- 30. Thomas Aquinas: Reason Against the Jews 301 -- PART FIVE -- The Inquisition: Enter Racism -- 31. One Road 313 -- 32. My Inquisition 319 -- 33. Convivencia to Reconquista 322 -- 34. Convert-Making: The Failure of Success 333 -- 35. Expulsion in 1492 343 -- 36. The Roman Ghetto 363 -- 37. The Religious Response of the Jews 385 -- 38. Shema Yisrael! 391 -- PART SIX -- Emancipation, Revolution, and a New Fear of Jews -- 39. Karl Marx, Second Son of Trier 401 -- 40. Spinoza: From Rabbis to Revolution 406 -- 41. Voltaire and the False Promise of Emancipation 414 -- 42. Jew as Revolutionary, Jew as Financier 426 -- 43. Revolution in Rome: The Pope's Jews 439 -- 44. Alfred Dreyfus and La Croix 450 -- 45. The Uses of Antisemitism 464 -- 46. Lucie and Madeleine 467 -- PART SEVEN -- The Church and Hitler -- 47. From Christian Anti-Judaism to Eliminationist -- Antisemitism 475 -- 48. Setting a Standard: The Church Against Bismarck 479 -- 49. Eugenio Pacelli and the Surrender of German -- Catholicism 495 -- 50. The Seamless Robe in 1933 501 -- 51. Maria Laach and Reichstheologie 511 -- 52. Pius XII: Last Days of the Roman Ghetto 523 -- 53. Edith Stein and Catholic Memory 536 -- PART EIGHT -- A Callfor Vatican III -- 54. The Broad Relevance of Catholic Reform 547 -- 55. Agenda for a New Reformation 559 -- 56. Agenda Item i: Anti-Judaism in the New Testament 561 -- 57. Agenda Item 2: The Church and Power 570 -- 58. Agenda Item 3: A New Christology 577 -- 59. Agenda Item 4: The Holiness of Democracy 588 -- 60. Agenda Item 5: Repentance 599 -- Epilogue: The Faith of a Catholic 605 -- Acknowledgments 619 -- Chronology 622 -- Notes 628 -- Bibliography 696 -- Index 720.
Summary In this "rare book that combines searing passion . . . with a subject that has affected all of our lives" ("Chicago Tribune"), novelist and cultural critic James Carroll maps the 2,000-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.
Subject Catholic Church -- Relations -- Judaism.
Catholic Church. (OCoLC)fst00531720
Christianity and antisemitism -- History.
Judaism -- Relations -- Catholic Church.
Christianity and antisemitism. (OCoLC)fst00859644
Interfaith relations. (OCoLC)fst01353343
Judaism. (OCoLC)fst00984280
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
ISBN 0395779278
9780395779279
0618219080 (paperback)
9780618219087 (paperback)
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