James Carroll’s recently published book, Constantine’s Sword: The Church and the Jews, sets out as its central argument the direct connection between the holocaust and Constantine. The book argues emphatically that the Church’s foundational texts, the Gospels, the writings of St. Paul and much of the early apologetics of the Christian faith are inherently Anti-Semitic and for the Christian church to do penance for its bitter history of Jewish persecution, it must come to terms with the truth of its past, and must rediscover the real Jesus amid the lies of its apologists.
