Review Of God's Jury: The Inquisition And The Making Of The Modern World

While reading the book “God’s Jury: The Inquisition and the Making of the Modern World”, I found a sense that while the book had very interesting and questioning connections with a variety of passed inquisitions and where or how there are similarities to our modern time. Which is explained greatly by Murphy, functioning as a guide to the readers, offering a tour of the Inquisition’s nearly 700-year-old. I also found that Murphy did a great job in defining and explaining in detail the various gruesome instruments and acts of torture through history and showing similarities and same techniques used today. My the one problem I had was I found it an overall amusing to read, but personally until the first 3-4 chapters the book is quite difficult to digest and connect with, but as the inquisitions began to be more modern era I could relate and see the points and connections that were being made. I found that Murphy’s focus was to demonstrate how the mind-set and some machinery of the Inquisitions are unpreventable products of the modern world that later surfaced in Stalin’s Russia,

I believe that with Murphy’s apparent witty writing allows him to pull it off for the most part, offering a compact and breezy history of the Roman Catholic Church’s bloody crusade with an direct analysis of America’s post-9/11 security apparatus. Which we now refer to as the Inquisition, with a capital “I,” was begun by Pope Gregory IX in 1231 when he appointed “inquisitors of heretical depravity” usually Dominican friars, to root out those who disputed the Vatican’s authority. They started with the Cathars, members of a Christian group, who were ruthlessly eliminated from their stronghold near the Pyrenees. The inquisitors then ventured further afield to enforce the pope’s ideology, particularly against conversos, Jewish converts, and secondarily, Christianized Muslims, Protestants and