Jerusalem, Jerusalem: How the Ancient City Ignited Our Modern World

Carroll's "Jerusalem, Jerusalem," has so much of the current socio-political and religious issues that bring to light the three "main monotheism's," of Judaism, Islam, and Christianity that are playing out even as I type this. Carroll begins with a well written introduction which is actually the first chapter played out within four subcategories. In it he develops the main theme - giving ourselves up to our religions via an all encompassing 'sacrifice' that may or may not be the best for us to consider. These three religions are a triangulation of the conceptual aspect of God and how the faithful, being the fourth point, squares our own personal story within the scriptures of the Bible. A Christian, himself, Carroll does not hold back on his criticism of that book. And the same goes for the books of the other two faiths, the Quran and the Torah (including the precepts of the Talmud). His critique works in such that anyone who finishes "Jerusalem, Jerusalem" will be the better for it. Neither a work of liberalism or conservative advocacy, Carroll simply tells us how things interpretively were, are going, and possible could be...faith or not.