Constantine's Sword From:Philip Bosco , Natasha Richardson , Eli Wallach , Liev Schreiber , James Carroll , Oren Jacoby , FIRST RUN FEATURES ,
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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0720229913355
Format: Color
Format: Dolby
Format: DVD-Video
Format: NTSC
Format: Widescreen
Label: FIRST RUN FEATURES
Manufacturer: FIRST RUN FEATURES
Number Of Items: 1
Packaged Height: 58 hundredths-inches
Packaged Length: 710 hundredths-inches
Packaged Weight: 18 hundredths-pounds
Packaged Width: 542 hundredths-inches
Publisher: FIRST RUN FEATURES
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2008-09-16
Running Time: 96 minutes
Studio: FIRST RUN FEATURES
Theatrical Release Date: 2008
Product Description:
Constantine's Sword is an astonishing exploration of the dark side of Christianity, following acclaimed author and former priest James Carrol on a journey of rememberance and reckoning. Warning of what happens when military power and religious fervor are joined, this new film from Oscar-nominated director Oren Jacoby asks: Is the fanaticism that threatens the world today fueled by our own deeply held beliefs?
Customer Reviews:
 Constantine's Sword a selective history!, 2008-11-29
James Carroll has written and produced a excellent documentary but very selective Social History of Europe to modern times. The flaw in his study is in his overly narrow focus not in his facts. His is a history of the interactions between the three great western religions. In doing so Mr. Carroll ignores hundreds bloody events that make up Judeo-Christian-Islamic history. These could easily be documented beginning with the Old Testament Genesis and Deuteronomy leading into the New Testament and Medieval. In doing so he tends to overemphasize the true horrors of events such as the Russian pogroms while overlooking the equally horrific Albigensian Crusade and the daily persecutions heretics. In his history we are lead to believe the "Inquisition" affected only "Jews". While the Jews of Spain were interrogated tortured and even burned by the Popes Dominican priests, so were many other Religious Minorities.
Note the book is correctly titled "Constantine's Sword: The Church and the Jews -- A History"
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