Constantine's Sword: The Church and the Jews - A History

James Carroll

Part history, part memoir, "Constantine's Sword" by novelist James Carroll traces the record of anti-Semitism and anti-Judaism in the Catholic Church, suggesting that centuries of hostility culminated in the Holocaust. Carroll also traces the development of his own thinking about Judaism: as a Catholic seminarian, he knew no Jews and little about Judaism, except what he learned in classrooms, which he relates as learnig that Judaism had been superceded by Christ's new covenant.

Carroll offers fresh, provocative analysis, as in his discussion of the idea that the God of the Jews is a judgmental God concerned with law, whereas Jesus is about love is the foundation of much anti-Semitism. Carroll argues that Jesus' emphasis on love was his most Jewish attribute. Carroll paints these inciteful arguments in his characteristically vigorous prose. This brilliant work will satisfy Jewish and Christians readers alike, challenging both to a renewed conversation with one another.

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