Overview
"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. God's Jury encompasses the diverse stories of the Knights Templar, Torquemada, Galileo, and Graham Greene. Established by the Catholic Church in 1231, the Inquisition continued in one form or another for almost seven hundred years. Though associated with the persecution of heretics and Jews--and with burning at the stake--its targets were more numerous and its techniques more ambitious. The Inquisition pioneered surveillance and censorship and ""scientific"" interrogation. As time went on, its methods and mindset spread far beyond the Church to become tools of secular persecution. Traveling from freshly opened Vatican archives to the detention camps of Guant�namo to the filing cabinets of the Third Reich, Murphy traces the Inquisition and its legacy. 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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Author: Cullen Murphy ,
Robertson Dean
Publisher: Tantor Audio
Imprint: Tantor Audio
ISBN: 9798200081646
Publication Date: 19 March 2012
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Format: Audio
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Reviews
"When virtue arms itself---beware! Lucid, scholarly, elegantly told, God's Jury is as gripping as it is important.-- ""James Carroll"" ""Cullen Murphy's account of the Inquisition is a dark but riveting tale, told with luminous grace. The Inquisition, he shows us, represents more than a historical episode of religious persecution. The drive to root out heresy and sin, once and for all, is emblematic of the modern age and a persisting danger in our time."" -- ""Michael J. Sandel, author of Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?"" ""Dean's gently authoritative voice is clear, articulate, and unbiased in describing the most notorious institution of religious enforcement--and its legacy."" -- ""AudioFile"" ""Entertaining, lively chronicle of the Inquisition, touching on a wide variety of issues across the centuries."" -- ""Kirkus Reviews"" ""Murphy powerfully shows that the impulse to inquisition can quietly take root in any system--civil or religious--that orders our lives."" -- ""Publishers Weekly"" ""When virtue arms itself--beware! Lucid, scholarly, elegantly told, God's Jury is as gripping as it is important."" -- ""James Carroll, award-winning author of Jerusalem, Jerusalem"""
Author Information
Cullen Murphy is the editor at large at Vanity Fair and the former managing editor of the Atlantic Monthly. He is the author of Are We Rome? The Fall of an Empire and the Fate of America, The Word According to Eve, and the essay collection Just Curious. He is also coauthor of Rubbish! The Archaeology of Garbage. C. E. lives in Boston, Massachusetts. Robertson Dean has played leading roles on and off Broadway and at dozens of regional theaters throughout the country. He has a BA from Tufts University and an MFA from Yale. His audiobook narration has garnered ten AudioFile Earphones Awards. He now lives in Los Angeles, where he works in film and television in addition to narrating.
