The Shroud of Turin in the Third Millennium?: Confronting the Limits of Human Knowledge

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