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    The Shroud Codex

    Written by Jerome R. Corsi Ph.D.

    Narrated by George Guidall

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    The priest. . . . Brought back to life on an operating room table after a horrific car crash, Father Paul Bartholomew is haunted by frightening visions—especially the moments when he seems to inhabit the body of Christ at Golgotha.

    The skeptics. . . . Dr. Stephen Castle, a New York City psychiatrist and renowned atheist, has built an international reputation for his book arguing that religion is a figment of human imagination. Professor Marco Gabrielli, an Italian religious researcher and chemist, has made a career of debunking supposed miracles, of explaining the unexplainable.

    The miracle. . . . For centuries, however, the Shroud of Turin has defied scientific explanation. Is this ancient remnant that bears such a vividly detailed pictorial representation truly the burial cloth that wrapped Christ after he was taken down from the cross? Or is it the biggest fraud ever perpetrated on the Christian community?

    As Father Bartholomew—newly returned to his parish, the venerable St. Joseph's Church in upper Manhattan—celebrates Mass, blood starts running down his arm. The horrified congregation watches him collapse to the ground, his vestments soaked with the blood pouring from wounds on his wrists.

    The phenomenon is known as stigmata, when a person appears to manifest the wounds that Christ suffered upon the cross. But in Father Bartholomew's case there is a mysterious added dimension: he has been transformed to resemble in almost every physical aspect the Christ-like figure represented on the Shroud of Turin.

    Worried that Bartholomew's case could be proved a hoax, the Vatican employs Dr. Castle and Professor Gabrielli to investigate. But for the well-known psychiatrist and the experienced man of science both, Father Bartholomew presents the most perplexing challenge either has ever faced.

    Dr. Castle watches in person while the priest appears to writhe in agony, blood spurting from wounds identical to those portrayed on the famous shroud, and he wonders if he too can have been sucked into some kind of shared hallucination. Meanwhile, Professor Gabrielli—confident that he can reproduce the shroud by using materials and methods available in the Middle Ages—works frantically to prove that the shroud is a medieval forgery.

    But when the priest's uncanny resemblance to the crucified Christ on the Shroud prompts the two men to investigate the famous artifact itself, each is finally forced to face mysteries that cannot be explained by sheer reason alone. It will be the most unsettling—and eventually soul-wrenching—journey of discovery they have ever undertaken.

    From Jerome R. Corsi, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Obama Nation, comes a magnificent, thought-provoking first novel. Grounded in the same kind of in-depth, all-encompassing research that has distinguished Corsi's nonfiction, The Shroud Codex plumbs the farthest reaches of science and the human spirit.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster Audio
    Release dateApr 13, 2010
    ISBN9781442335189
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    • 4/5
      I found the book to be quite enjoyable. The writing was good. There were a two or three places where dialog or a description seemed to have been cut and pasted from an earlier chapter, although an exact repetition was not necessary. The presentation of the processes through which the Shroud of Turin has been examined over the years was fascinating and, as far as I could tell, accurate. Mr. Corsi has previously written on the subject in the non-fiction genre. The story follows the popular tendency to suggest that any Vatican investigation is a conspiracy in the making, but Mr. Corsi does this in a whisper. There were a few misstatements of Catholic teaching, the most serious of which was a misrepresentation of the cause of Christ's death. Tradition and the Bible present Jesus as dying and then his corpse being pierced by the lance either to guarantee the fact or as a final insult. The book makes the lance the instrument of his immediate death. There is an important theological difference between the two, which goes beyond the realm of a book review.Overall, with these points in mind or not, I can recommend THE SHROUD CODEX to any curious reader.
    • 5/5
      When Fr. Bartholomew begins to show the stigmata of Christ, he becomes a revered individual. The world watches him closely. His story is told over and over.A near-death experience, and a promise of deciphering the shroud codex, brings Fr. Bartholomew back to this life.A well written book, full of intrigue and mystery. I read this through in a single day, simply not able to put it down. But then, the Shroud of Turin has always held strong fascination for me, so this fun read held me fast!It helped that I am a fan of Corsi's investigative writing as well!I highly recommend this read to anyone who enjoys a good fictional read that is very loosely based on fact.I give this book five stars and a big thumbs up!****DISCLOSURE: This book was a private purchase, and as such I was under no obligation for reviewing it. All opinions in this post are my own and under no obligation.
    • 5/5
      This was a great read. I enjoyed the storyline and house closely referenced the different stages of the Crucifixion. I would recommend this book to others to read.
    • 2/5
      A sort of techno-mystery with religious and spiritual overtones, in which a priest returns from a near-death experience convinced that God has given him a mission to reveal to mankind the secret message encrypted in the Shroud of Turin. He begins to manifest the wounds Jesus suffered during the Passion, and even comes to physically resemble the man depicted by the Shroud. There is a fairly intriguing conclusion that reminds me of Arthur C. Clarke's saying, "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" (I have always mentally substituted the word "God" here). But the writing is bland, the dialogue reminds me of the two detectives in "Dragnet", and the conclusion lacks any kind of definitive revelation. And I suppose I shouldn't hold this against him, but I found in the author's blurb that he is the author of some pretty far right-wing political books, including the truly slimy Swift Boat Veterans smear of John Kerry.