How long does it take to read Constantine's Sword?
James Carroll
Constantine's Sword by James Carroll takes about 13 hours 58 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 13 hours 58 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2001. 762 pages, about 209,550 words.
28 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 23 hours 17 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 13 hours 58 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 8 hours 44 minutes |
The page count is the median across 5 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
"In a book that is sure to spark heated debate, the novelist and cultural critic James Carroll maps the profoundly troubling two-thousand-year course of the battle against Judaism and faces the crisis of faith it has provoked in his own life as a Catholic. More than a chronicle of religion, this dark history is the central tragedy of Western civilization, its fault lines reaching deep into our culture. The Church's failure to protest the Holocaust - the infamous "silence" of Pius XII - is only part of the story: the death camps, Carroll shows, are the culmination of a long, entrenched tradition of anti-Judaism. From Gospel accounts of the death of Jesus on the cross, to Constantine's transformation of the cross into a sword, to the rise of blood libels, scapegoating, and modern anti-Semitism, Carroll reconstructs the dramatic story of the Church's conflict not only with Jews but with itself. Yet in tracing the arc of this narrative, he implicitly affirms that it did not necessarily have to be so. There were roads not taken, heroes forgotten; new roads can be taken yet. Demanding that the Church finally face this past in full, Carroll calls for a fundamental rethinking of the deepest questions of Christian faith. Only then can Christians, Jews, and all who carry the burden of this history begin to forge a new future."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Judaism, Relations, Christianity and antisemitism, Catholic Church, History, Judaism, relations, catholic church
