Bloodshed and Blessing: Stories of Sacrifice from Ancient Altars to the Holy Mass
Something deep within you recognizes it – the instinct that sacrifice matters, that something must be offered, that violence and beauty are woven together in ways that mere reason cannot explain. You are not alone. Civilizations throughout history have felt it.
In Bloodshed and Blessing, Fr. Dwight Longenecker takes you on a gripping journey through ten ancient cultures, from the Aztecs to the Vikings, in which blood sacrifice was not the mark of barbarism but the beating heart of an entire worldview.
Fr. Dwight Longenecker was brought up in an Evangelical home in Pennsylvania and studied…
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