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The “monumental” New York Times bestseller in which a Catholic explores the problem of anti-Semitism through Church history (The Washington Post).
A Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year and a New York Times Notable Book
In this “masterly history” (Time), National Book Award-winning author James Carroll maps the profoundly troubling two-thousand-year course of the Church’s
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The death of Jesus is one of the most hotly debated questions in Christianity today. In his massive and highly publicized The Death of the Messiah, Raymond Brown -- while clearly rejecting anti-Semitism -- never questions the essential historicity of the passion stories. Yet it is these stories, in which the Jews decide Jesus' execution, that have fueled centuries of Christian anti-Semitism. Now, in his most controversial book, John Dominic Crossan...
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This revelatory account of how the Vatican saved thousands of Jews during WWII shows why history must exonerate "Hitler's Pope"
Accused of being "silent" during the Holocaust, Pope Pius XII and the Vatican of World War II are now exonerated in Gordon Thomas's newest investigative work, The Pope's Jews. Thomas's careful research into new, first-hand accounts reveal an underground network of priests, nuns and citizens that risked their lives daily...
4) Amen
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[2003]
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Widescreen format (1.85:first).
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A German SS Lieutenant covertly collaborates with a young Italian priest in hopes of changing the Vatican's policies toward Germany during WWII, which both believe are exacerbating the Jewish Holocaust.
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"Appalling events in recent years have brought home to us the pervasiveness of white supremacist views, practices, and structures in both the United States and in Europe. This stunningly ambitious, sweeping cultural and intellectual history explores their Christian origins. It also argues for the enduring importance of these origins -- even if contemporary white supremacists do not always rely on explicitly religious rationales for their ideas. Magda...
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[2008]
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Widescreen format.
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Author and ex-Catholic priest James Carroll "confront[s] persecution and violence in the name of God - today and in the Church's past. He discovers a terrible legacy that reverberates across the centuries: from the Emperor Constantine's vision of the cross as a sword and symbol of power, to the rise of genocidal antisemitism, to modern-day wars sparked by religious extremism" -- Container.
Uses Carroll's earlier book of the same title (c2001) as...
16) The truth will set you free: commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the death of Pope Pius XII
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[2008]
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17) The devil and the Jews: the medieval conception of the Jew and its relation to modern antisemitism
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1983.
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Second paperback edition.
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English
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