Yes, I have as well...
Even if you assume 25% of the premises, or "facts" in Hunt's book are out of context or open to interpretation, it still leaves another 75% of which must be seriously considered.
I'll check out 'What is Love'...
"EVERYTHING he writes is suspect in my mind."
In Hunt's defense, just imagine the walls of silence and road blocks he's run into in disseminating truth from fiction under the circumstances.
Let's face it -- all naivety aside, the CC is indeed a powerful force to be reckoned with when it comes to protecting their own interests, traditions, AND especially, history.
I've studied church history at the collegiate level, so I've got a little knowledge in this area. If there's one thing I've discovered in my study of church history, it is that no one had clean hands. Catholics had their Inquistion, the Calvinists had Severtus, and everyone persecuted the Anabaptists.
So you see -- even if the facts are 100% right (which many are not -- Pius XII did NOT collaborate with Hitler), divorced from their context, they serve only to enflame passions. If I recount the horrors of the Inquisition, all but the most biased Catholics will readily admit that it was wrong. But how was the Inquisition any different than Calvin's allowing the Geneva town board (who would rubber-stamp anything he requested) to execute Severtus, who was admittedly a heretic?
A good (and fair) book about the general history of church is Church History in Plain Language by Bruce Shelley. It's quite readable, but also has a fair amount of information in it.
(These were the textbooks to my "Western Church History" class, taught by a Christian prof who is also the campus director of Campus Crusade for Christ.)