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Looking for a Miracle - Weeping Icons, Relics, Stigmata, Visions and Healing Cures (Hardcover, illustrated edition)
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Looking for a Miracle - Weeping Icons, Relics, Stigmata, Visions and Healing Cures (Hardcover, illustrated edition)
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Do miracles really happen? What is the evidence for paranormal
phenomena that demonstrate divine power, and what alternative
explanations can be offered for such apparently miraculous
occurrences? How does the earnest inquirer assess the conflicting
evidence and reach a conclusion? These and related questions are
answered in this illuminating examination of miracle claims by
respected historical, paranormal, and forensic investigator Joe
Nickell. Not a critique of religion but rather a careful
examination of the evidence relating to specific claims of the
miraculous, Looking for a Miracle investigates a panoply of strange
events, powers, and objects that are at the center of the
controversy between so-called miraculists and confirmed skeptics.
Among the phenomena studied are "Miraculous Pictures", like the
Shroud of Turin, the Edessan Image, and the Image of Guadalupe;
seemingly "Magical Icons", such as weeping, bleeding, and otherwise
animated paintings and statues; "Mystical Relics", including
"burning handprints", the liquefying blood of St. Januarius, and
ostensibly "incorruptible" corpses of saints; "Pentecostal Powers",
such as speaking in tongues, the gift of prophecy, taking up
serpents, and other powers and immunities; "Faith Healing",
including the reported miracle cures at Lourdes and the practices
of evangelists, Christian Scientists, and "psychic surgeons";
"Ecstatic Visions", like the apparitions of the Virgin Mary at
Fatima and Medjugorje; and such "Sanctified Powers" as luminosity,
levitation, bilocation, stigmata, inedia (the going without food);
and the ability to produce objects out of thin air. Looking for a
Miracle is a wide-ranging investigative study of acontroversial
topic that has all too often been approached either with excessive
credulity or a dismissive attitude. Religious believers and
rationalist thinkers alike have much to learn from this revealing
examination of the evidence for the miraculous.
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