December 5, 2006
James Carroll: In Search of a Common Humanity
Hosted by The Luce Program in Scripture and Literary Arts and the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center
James Carroll, a former Catholic chaplain at Boston University and winner of the 1996 National Book Award for nonfiction, examines the assumptions of different religions, cultures, and ethnicities, in search of commonalities. Carroll argues that fundamental religious ideas can inspire such inhumane acts as the Crusades, the Holocaust, and 9/11. But, he says, we must examine core religious beliefs and change those that may lead to harmful actions.
Vita Paladino, director of the Howard Gotlieb Center, and Peter Hawkins, director of the Luce Program, introduce Carroll. A question-and-answer session follows.
December 5, 2006, 6:30 p.m.
GSU Metcalf Hall
Video length is 01:31:56.
About the speaker:
James Carroll, born in Chicago in 1943 and raised in Washington, D.C., was the Catholic chaplain at Boston University from 1969 to 1974. He later left the priesthood and became a writer.
Carroll’s works include the New York Times bestsellers Mortal Friends (1978), Family Trade (1982), and Prince of Peace (1984) and Notable Books of the Year The City Below (1994) and Secret Father (2003). His memoir An American Requiem: God, My Father, and the War That Came Between Us, received numerous awards, including the 1996 National Book Award for nonfiction. Constantine’s Sword: The Church and the Jews: A History (2001), was a New York Times bestseller and was honored as one of the Best Books of 2001 by the Los Angeles Times. Responding to the Catholic Church’s sex abuse crisis, he published Toward a New Catholic Church: The Promise of Reform (2002). Crusade: Chronicles of an Unjust War (2004) was adapted from Carroll’s Boston Globe columns after September 11. His most recent book is House of War: The Pentagon and the Disastrous Rise of American Power (2005), which the Chicago Tribune called “the first great nonfiction book of the new millennium.”
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