ICON SUPREME? THE SHROUD OF TURIN - Lawson C Briggs - December 1978

Lawson C Briggs

I hope you understand," said a current editor of Scientific American, "that [our magazine] is under new ownership now, and we certainly wouldn't have published that article today. It was nonsense." He was referring to Scientific American's March 1937 article on the shroud of Turin, believed by many to be the very cloth which covered the body of Christ after it was taken down from the cross. Opinions are very heated and dogmatic on the subject of the shroud. Is it a miracle? A hoax? Is it genuine? Among the religious, Protestants in general have tended to voice skepticism; modern Catholics, belief. Secular scholars, following their own dogma of demanding proof rather than mere speculation, have almost unanimously judged it a religious hoax. But Robert Wilcox, former religion editor of the Miami News, came to the conclusion the relic is genuine. In 1977 his book Shroud stirred anew the centuries-old authenticity debate. - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library