The Great Apparitions of Mary: An Examination of the Twenty-Two Supranormal Appearances

Swann, Ingo

ISBN 10: 0824516141 / ISBN 13: 9780824516147

Verlag: The Crossroad Publishing Company, 1996

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The great apparitions of Mary, starting with Guadalupe in 1531, occur with a steady and increasing drumbeat across the decades and centuries. The places and the principals involved change, but the messages calling people to turn from lives of violence and sin and to seek repentance are remarkably similar. By focusing on the most widely known and documented appearances and presenting them in chronological order, the power of the events and the messages emerge in a powerful way. Swann shows how advances in science have placed the apparitions in a more intriguing light. One of the historic challenges concerning them was how could something which was not there be there in a way that registered on the eye mechanisms? The discovery of holography, where images that appear to be three-dimensional, having bulk, shape and mass, can be photographed, have provided an analogy that enlarges our perception of the physical laws and challenges the skeptics verdict of hallucination. This fascinating and compelling account of the appearances challenges readers Catholic or not, religion or not, believers or not, to reflect on the messages and their possible consequences for our civilization and our future.

Reseña del editor: The great apparitions of Mary, starting with Guadalupe in 1531, occur with a steady and increasing drumbeat across the decades and centuries. The places and the principals involved change, but the messages calling people to turn from lives of violence and sin and to seek repentance are remarkably similar. By focusing on the most widely known and documented appearances and presenting them in chronological order, the power of the events and the messages emerge in a powerful way.Swann shows how advances in science have placed the apparitions in a more intriguing light. One of the historic challenges concerning them was how could something which was not there be there in a way that registered on the eye mechanisms? The discovery of holography, where images that appear to be three-dimensional, having bulk, shape and mass, can be photographed, have provided an analogy that enlarges our perception of the physical laws and challenges the skeptics' verdict of hallucination.

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Titel: The Great Apparitions of Mary: An ...
Verlag: The Crossroad Publishing Company
Erscheinungsdatum: 1996
Einband: Softcover
Zustand: Good