God's Jury: The Inquisition and the Making of the Modern WorldHoughton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012 - 310 sider "The Inquisition is a dark mark in the history of the Catholic Church. But it was not the first inquisition nor the last, as Cullen Murphy shows in this far-ranging, informed, and (dare one say?) witty account of its reach down to our own time, in worldly affairs more than ecclesiastical ones." -- Margaret O'Brien Steinfels, former editor, Commonweal The Inquisition conducted its last execution in 1826 -- the victim was a Spanish schoolmaster convicted of heresy. But as Cullen Murphy shows in this provocative new work, not only did its offices survive into the twentieth century, in the modern world its spirit is more influential than ever. With the combination of vivid immediacy and learned analysis that characterized his acclaimed Are We Rome?, Murphy puts a human face on a familiar but little-known piece of our past, and argues that only by understanding the Inquisition can we hope to explain the making of the present. |
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God's Jury: The Inquisition and the Making of the Modern World Cullen Murphy Ingen forhåndsvisning tilgjengelig - 2012 |