Shroud of Turin in the Third Millennium?

The Shroud of Turin is an artifact unlike any other that presents numerousphilosophical challenges to what we can know and how we can know it. This book explores the Shroud in a way unlike any other work for it invitesthe inquirer to contemplate not only the image on the Shroud, but how wecan come to certainty of knowledge and what that knowledge might mean. Starting from a simple length of linen, Cheryl White explores wherearchaeological enigma, philosophical inquiry, and theological mystery meet. Shunning sensationalism, her book refuses to take sides for or against theShroud of Turin s authenticity. White challenges our assumptions: the naivetrust in pre-packaged scientific verdicts radiocarbon dating among them aswell as the temptation to proclaim an ultimate proof of the Resurrection. Withclarity and humility, she invites us to contemplate the truth the Shroud of Turinreflects a mirror of the Gospel. -Tristan Casabianca, Shroud of Turin Scholar and ResearcherLike an impartial umpire, Dr. White fairly assesses various indirect references fromthe past and takes us to school on how the historical method really works. Sheapplies the same objective analysis to the vast amount of scientific investigationand what science reveals or fails to reveal. The reader will be enlightened bylearning things not previously known or understood, humbled by the objectivechallenge of our own suppositions, and yet more enthralled than ever with themystery, meaning and message of the Shroud and what it portends for the future. -Russ Breault, President of Shroud of Turin Education Project, Inc. and Author of Shroud EncounterDr. White, in a book unlike any other on the Shroud, masterly provides uniqueinsights into historical, theological, scientific and epistemological aspects of theintriguing mystery of the Shroud of Turin, a cloth with profound implicationsfor faith, reason, and science. This book needs to be in the collection of anyserious researcher of the Shroud. -Joe Marino, President of Shroud of TurinEducation and Research Association