Novelist and National Book Award winner James Carroll claims that Constantine’s Sword is a work of history, and he even uses the term in his subtitle. But it is evident from the outset and amply displayed in chapter after chapter that the word "history"is a euphemism. This is a book driven by theological animus and padded with irrelevant, distracting material from Carroll’s (...)
January 16, 2001
Books
Dismantling the Cross
Constantine's SwordThe Church and the Jews: A Historyby James CarrollHoughton Mifflin, $28, 756 pp.
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