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James carroll goes to painstaking lengths in his new book, christ actually to confront millennia of undisguised antisemitism, scriptural fabrications and tactical misreadings of history, all of which have prevented an informed understanding of jesus of nazareth. In the cloister, carroll has produced a sweeping, beautifully crafted book perhaps his best yet. James carroll s highly informed and deeply personal rereading of the tradition of jesus, follows the question antinazi german theologian dietrich bonhoeffer asked from his prison cell during. The son of god for the secular age by greg cusack december 6, 2014 james carroll is a gentleman of my generation and, as my friend ken wolf has pointed out from his reading of carroll, experienced similar rites of passage as most of us of that time and place did. So this book, about belief in the secular agelike any work on the. The son of god for the secular age by james carroll. Other books include the national book award winning an american requiem. Sacred causes goodreads meet your next favorite book. In a bold and moving book that is sure to spark heated debate, the novelist and cultural critic james carroll maps the profoundly troubling twothousandyear. James carroll is the author of twenty books, including, most recently, the. Wall street journalthe cloister poetically pingpongs between abelards abbey in saintdenis in the 1100s, elsewhere in france during and after world war ii, and upper manhattan in the early 1950s. See all books authored by james carroll, including constantines sword.
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