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Article: Constantine's Sword.(SHORT TAKES)(Movie review)(Brief article)
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- September 22, 2008
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"Christian faith can seem to triumph over every evil except Christian triumphalism," journalist James Carroll wrote in his colossal indictment of Catholic anti-Semitism, 2001's Constantine's Sword. Director Oren Jacoby's recent adaptation of Carroll's work is less an exercise in impugning the Vatican than a sensitive blend of memoir and no-frills history, and if the film lacks the surgical delicacy of Carroll's book, it capably navigates the church's dark past. Front and center is Constantine, the ugly patriarch of Christianity, who used the cross--the image of Jesus's execution--to unite his empire and cast blame on "the infidels they knew." Jacoby and Carroll move ...
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Article: Constantine's Sword
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April 16, 2008 ;
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... ... Holocaust. So argues James Carroll in his 2001 book Constantine's Sword and in this searching ... intellectually lively documentary. Carroll, the former priest turned ... cast in the year 312, when Constantine I claimed his decisive Roman ...
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