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Chargement... The Inquisitionpar Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Noting that the authors of "The Inquisition" were Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh, authors of tomes like "Holy Blood and the Holy Grail", I started reading "The Inquisition" slightly concerned that it would be host to all manner of conspiracy theories. That didn't quite eventuate but there were a few woolly statements made throughout. That aside, I did like "The Inquisition" and provided some food for thought. ( ) For the first 13 chapters, a nice explication of the Roman and Spanish inquisitions. But, then, in chapter 14, when trying to explain the evolution into the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith, the authors head into a weird rant against Pope John Paul II and Cardinal Ratzinger (the book was written before Ratzinger's election to pope). Frankly, these last three chapters seem like they belong in another book. Chapters 1-13: Four stars; Chapters 14-17: Two stars or less. I should have read the bottom of the cover 'Co-authors of the international bestseller The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail.' This is the worst book on the Inquisition I have ever read. If you want to know about the Inquisition read Kamen or Netanyahu. These loosers have no idea about the issues they just like to sensationalise the issues. This might appeal to the anti-religion crowd. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
After the Albigensian Crusade against the Cathars of south-west France in 1208, a Spanish monk - later canonized as St Dominic - took up the cudgels by establishing a kind of secret police to ferret out heresy - thus began the infamous Inquisition. Baigent and Leigh tell the whole extraordinary story, taking it on into the nineteenth century and showing how after the Doctrine of Papal Infallibility in 1870 the Vatican attempted to establish new authorities that were an intellectual equivalent of the Inquisition. The Inquisition offers a fascinating narrative account of one of the most influential and horrifying movements in the history of western Europe. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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