Product Description

This series is the only comprehensive narration of Western history written from the orthodox Catholic perspective still in print. How would a historical narrative read if the author began with these first principles: Truth exists; the Incarnation happened? This series is essential reading for those who consider the West worth defending.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #259576 in Books
• Published on: 2004-10-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 782 pages

Customer Reviews

If you want Historical Truth, read this book
I read all three volumes back to back and I cannot wait for the forth volume to be released. This book is long, but worth the read. A must for any historian. Once you pick it up you cannot put it down. One of the best histories out there.

A masterpiece by a superb historian
Warren Carroll is a wonderful historian and a wonderfull writer. Some people will criticize a book because it does not cover their pet topics. But Warren Carroll, more than many other historians out there, covers history objectively and masterfully. His History of Christendom is nothing short of engrossing.

Knights Templar View of History
"Glory of Christendom" represents the third volume of Dr. Carroll's history of Western Civilization. It is beautifully written and superbly documented. But, as we suspected at the conclusion of volume 2, there are flaws that seem to be more evident as the narrative moves along.

Herein, Dr. Carroll describes in considerable detail the saga of Edward I of England without ever mentioning that monarch's struggles with the Jewish minority that resulted in his expelling them from his realm. Similarly, he devotes a great deal of space to Isabella of Spain and her reconquest of the Iberian peninsula. Yet he mentions not her expulsion of the Jews in the corpus of his text, relegating this event to his footnotes. A pattern emerges. And, as at the conclusion of his previous volume, Dr. Carroll's prejudice relative to Orthodox Christianity reveals itself again, as he inexplicably relates the enmity of Orthodox Russia with the Roman Catholic Church to that of atheistic communism. Such a formulation reveals profound prejudice against the truth of the Holy and Apostolic Catholic Church on the part of Dr. Carroll.

Months after reading this book, we had occassion to reread Juri Lina's wonderfully interesting and important "Architects of Deception". Within this book, Lina describes in considerable detail the cross of the Knights Templar, those precursors of modern day freemasonry. For some reason, this description was familiar to me. On searching for this sigil on the Internet, I was shocked to see the very symbol that adorns each of Dr. Carroll's histories. This blood red blunted cross he so proudly displays is the symbol of the notorious Knights Templar. Carroll describes in the present volume the suppression of the Templars by Phillip IV of France and Pope Clement V. Carroll lets us know herein that when Templar Grand Master de Molay was executed, he cursed both the King and the Pope, both of whom died within the year. Think of the breathtaking audacity of this. Carroll here implicity acknowledges his belief in the literal efficacy of cursing to death the rightful King of France and the duly elected Holy Father. How an author who would articulate such a position could claim to be a sincere Catholic is quite beyond understanding.