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I am not a historian—something Carroll and I have in common. He spent all of one year researching his book; I spent all of a few days researching this commentary, including poking around Carroll's book.

Still, I can confidently state that the most serious problem with Constantine's Sword is not its historical distortions, but its out-and-out attack on Christianity as such. It is not merely anti-Semitism that troubles Carroll. It is not even only Jesus' death and resurrection. Ultimately, it is the very belief that in Jesus God did something both unique and definitive, something with universal applicability for all mankind.

Carroll claims to love Jesus, but rejects the Jesus of the New Testament and of Christian tradition; he claims to love the Church, but repudiates the gospel which is its heart and soul. As long as the Church confesses Jesus as Lord and Savior, as long as her children seek to take up their cross

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