Apparitions, Healings, and Weeping Madonnas: Christianity and the Paranormal - Softcover

Schwebel, Lisa J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0809142236 ISBN 13: 9780809142231

Publisher: Paulist Press, 2004

Synopsis

Explores a wide range of mystical experiences as viewed from scientific and paranormal perspectives, closely examining such phenomena as weeping icons, prophecies, and miraculous healings throughout history, explaining how current research can provide a theoretical framework for their analysis. Orig

About this title

About the Author:

Lisa J. Schwebel, who holds a Ph.D. from Fordham University, is assistant professor of religion at Hunter College, City University of New York.

Review:

"I found this a fascinating and provocative treatment of the relationship between psychology and religious experience. This controversial subject is one of the most important challenges of our time. Lisa Schwebel makes good use of the work of Karl Rahner in her admirable effort to understand God's ways with humankind She is respectfully open to the transcendent and to emerging new psychological theories."

About this edition

• Publisher: Paulist Press
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0809142236
• ISBN 13: 9780809142231
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224