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.
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Michael Baigent is a New Zealander who has lived in the UK since 1976, and Richard Leigh an American who has also been here for many years. Together they collaborated on the international bestseller THE HOLY BLOOD and THE HOLY GRAIL. Baigent lives in Winchester, Hampshire, Leigh in London NW3.
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History of Today's Catholic Church,
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This review is from: Inquisition (Paperback)
I started reading this book thinking it would be a simple history of the Inquisition. It turned out to be much more. If you want to understand the modern Catholic Church, this book is for you. It contains an incredible amount of information on how the Church became what it is today. The authors are brilliant at explaining the history in a very simple yet complete way. They take the reader through the complexity of the politics behind the religion. They seperate the State from the Church. It will surprise you. I thought I would lose a bit more of whatever respect I had left for the Church after reading this book. Maybe I did. But I also gained a profound understanding of HOW it got to be what it is today. Fan or foe, you should inform yourself about this powerful institution that is the Catholic Church.
8 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
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AT LAST!! THE TRUTH REVEALED.,
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This review is from: Inquisition (Paperback)
THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH,OF COURSE,WOULD RATHER NOT SEE A BOOK OF THIS
NATURE IN PRINT.OH,THE CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY IN THE NAME OF RELIGION. SHAME! SHAME ON THE CHURCH FOR IT'S MURDEROUS ROLE IN THE ATTEMPT TO CONTROL THE MINDS OF MANKIND. THE FIRST GENOCIDE WAS CHRISTIAN AGAINST CHRISTIAN (NOT THE NAZI EXTERMINATION OF THE JEWS DURING WW2) WHEN THE CATHARS OF SOURTHERN FRANCE WERE PUT TO THE TORCH BY THE MERCENARIES SENT BY ROME IN THE 13TH CENTURY. IT'S ALL HERE IN THIS HISTORY FOR ALL TO READ. LONG OVERDUE. I HAVE HEARD IT SAID,"FOR A BAD PERSON TO BE BAD IS EASY. FOR A GOOD PERSON TO BE GOOD IS ALSO EASY. BUT FOR A GOOD PERSON TO BE BAD TAKES RELIGION."
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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Why religion doesn't work,
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This book is an apologia for religion and especially the Catholic Church. The fact that one church, and Christianity, could control lives with fear, superstition and dogma, says a lot about the veracity of the human mind. The authors make excuses for the Inquisition at the same time that they catalog the cruelties heaped on Europeans for centuries.
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