NEW EVIDENCE REVEALED: What No One Ever Told You About the Shroud of Turin w/Jeremiah J. Johnston

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Reflection

The Shroud of Turin has fascinated and divided scholars for over a century, and claims of new evidence should be weighed with the same care as claims of debunking; both sides have at times overstated their certainty. Whatever forensic or historical detail is discussed here, it is worth remembering that Christian faith does not, and should not, rest on a single relic. The resurrection's earliest and most substantial evidence is textual and testimonial, the accounts of those who said they encountered the risen Christ, some of whom, as Paul notes, were 'still living' and available to be questioned by his contemporaries (1 Corinthians 15:6). Physical artefacts can supplement historical curiosity without becoming the load-bearing wall of belief. Curiosity about the Shroud is entirely reasonable, and Christians can engage it without anxiety, since their hope was never meant to hinge on carbon dating but on a historical claim examined through many independent lines of testimony.

Questions to sit with

• How much weight should physical relics carry in matters of faith?
• What is the difference between curiosity about historical evidence and building faith upon it?
• Where does your own confidence in the resurrection rest, if not on artefacts?