God’s Jury: The Inquisition and the Making of the Modern World - Cullen Murphy Audiobook
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8 hrs 40 minutes
2012
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From the NYTimes Book Review:
While visiting the Alhambra, Cullen Murphy, editor at large at Vanity Fair, overheard a guide recounting the momentous events of 1492. King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella united Spain under a single Roman Catholic monarchy; Columbus journeyed west; and all Jews who refused to convert to Christianity were expelled, part of the rulers’ full-bodied embrace of the Inquisition.
“It was a very busy year,” he said to his listeners, who responded with uncertain laughter.
In “God’s Jury: The Inquisition and the Making of the Modern World” Mr. Murphy functions much like that guide, offering readers a tour of the Inquisition’s nearly 700-year-old edifice. Down to the dungeon to visit gruesome instruments of torture, up to the library to meet the scholars and then a stroll in the garden to survey the surrounding scenery. All the while Mr. Murphy tosses out amusing asides, weighty philosophical observations and contemporary analogies.
His aim is, ultimately, deeply serious. Mr. Murphy wants to demonstrate how the mind-set and machinery of the Inquisition are inescapable products of the modern world that later surfaced in Stalin’s Russia, Argentina’s military junta and 21st-century America, where harsh interrogation tactics and unlimited detention were used at Guantánamo Bay.
His strategy is to combine this grave and grim message with a charming road trip through the Vatican archives at the Palazzo del Sant’Uffizio, quaint French villages and Santa Fe’s plazas, a package tour that the publisher describes as both a “colorful travelogue” and “political analysis.”
In less capable hands, this somewhat incongruous combination might register as off-key. Fortunately, Mr. Murphy, the author of “Are We Rome?” and “The Word According to Eve,” is such a witty writer that he pulls it off for the most part, offering a compact and breezy history of the Roman Catholic Church’s bloody crusade with an incisive critique of America’s post-9/11 security apparatus. . . .
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| Cullen Murphy - God’s Jury - 06 - Chapter 6 - War on Error (The Secuar Inquisition).mp3 21.53 MBs | |
| Cullen Murphy - God’s Jury - 05 - Chapter 5 - The Ends of the Earth (The Global Inquisition).mp3 21.35 MBs | |
| Cullen Murphy - God’s Jury - 04 - Chapter 4 - That Satanic Device (The Roman Inquisition).mp3 21.28 MBs | |
| Cullen Murphy - God’s Jury - 02 - Chapter 2 - A Stake in the Ground (The Medieval Inquisition).mp3 20.77 MBs | |
| Cullen Murphy - God’s Jury - 03 - Chapter 3 - Queen of Torments (The Spanish Inquisition).mp3 20.44 MBs | |
| Cullen Murphy - God’s Jury - 07 - Chapter 7 - With God on Our Side (The Inquisition and the Modern World).mp3 14.61 MBs | |
| Cullen Murphy - God’s Jury - 01 - Chapter 1 - Standard Operating Procedure (The Paper Trail).mp3 13.04 MBs | |
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This post has one comment
May 20th, 2015
I’m not complaining about sharing the book or the quality, but it does seem like a bit of a stretch to connect the Inquisition to Guantánamo Bay, unless that is, you are making a correlation of how the the human brain functions in the first place and to what extent persons will go to either preserve or advance what they believe in, whether it be spiritual philosophy or political.
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