James Carroll is a Distinguished Scholar in Residence at Suffolk University and a columnist for The Boston Globe. He is the author of ten novels and seven works of fiction. He lives in Boston.
Praise for Christ Actually: The Son of God for the Secular
Age
“With well-researched clarity, Carroll explores the question posed
by anti-Nazi Lutheran pastor and martyr Dietrich Bonhoeffer: who
actually is Christ for us today?... Because Christ actually is
meaningful in some way to a billion Christians around the globe,
this heartfelt investigation is of interest to many.”
—Publishers Weekly
“Carroll…strives to reconceive Christ for a secular,
post-Holocaust, post-Hiroshima era….readers
seeking a faith responsive to the zeitgeist will find it here.”
—Booklist
“An in-depth, thought-provoking challenge to two millennia of
Christian interpretation.”
—Kirkus Reviews
“Written in the brisk, argumentative style that has won James
Carroll a broad popular readership, Christ Actually avoids the
interminable maundering of academic prose, even as its extensive
footnotes indicate attention to advanced, if radical, scholarship.
Conservative Christians may well be shocked and annoyed at
Carroll’s configuration of Jesus. Nevertheless, for its pushback
against the boundaries of conventional interpretations and, above
all, for its passionate presentation of the sinfulness of Christian
anti-Semitism, his book deserves serious attention.”
—Commonweal magazine
Praise for Constantine’s Sword
“Monumental…An eye-opening journey through twenty centuries of
history..This is a book for everyone.”—Christian Science
Monitor
“A triumph.”—The Atlantic Monthly
“A deeply felt work, a book that measures the sweep of history
against [his] experience as a man of the church.”—Floyd Skloot, San
Franciso Chronicle
“Remarkable . . . A book of a deeper sort.”
—Andrew Sullivan, The New York Times Book Review
“A masterly history . . . fascinating, brave.”
—Time
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