The Shroud of Turin is an artifact unlike any other that presents numerous
philosophical 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 invites
the inquirer to contemplate not only the image on the Shroud, but how we
can come to certainty of knowledge and what that knowledge might mean.
Starting from a simple length of linen, Cheryl White explores where
archaeological enigma, philosophical inquiry, and theological mystery meet.
Shunning sensationalism, her book refuses to take sides for or against the
Shroud of Turin's authenticity. White challenges our assumptions: the naïve
trust in pre-packaged scientific verdicts-radiocarbon dating among them-as
well as the temptation to proclaim an ultimate proof of the Resurrection. With
clarity and humility, she invites us to contemplate the truth the Shroud of Turin
reflects-a mirror of the Gospel.
-Tristan Casabianca, Shroud of Turin Scholar and Researcher
Like an impartial umpire, Dr. White fairly assesses various indirect references from
the past and takes us to school on how the historical method really works. She
applies the same objective analysis to the vast amount of scientific investigation
and what science reveals or fails to reveal. The reader will be enlightened by
learning things not previously known or understood, humbled by the objective
challenge of our own suppositions, and yet more enthralled than ever with the
mystery, 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 Encounter
Dr. White, in a book unlike any other on the Shroud, masterly provides unique
insights into historical, theological, scientific and epistemological aspects of the
intriguing mystery of the Shroud of Turin, a cloth with profound implications
for faith, reason, and science. This book needs to be in the collection of any
serious researcher of the Shroud.
-Joe Marino, President of Shroud of Turin
Education and Research Association
