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“In this remarkably readable book, Wiebe focuses upon encounters
of Jesus reported in the Bible and throughout history. Included is a
discussion of the image of Jesus on the Shroud of Turin and his own
careful study of thirty contemporary encounters with Jesus. Phillip
Wiebe makes the strongest possible case that while maybe only limited
experimental evidence from which decisions about encounters with -
Jesus can be made, the experiential evidence is more than persuasive
and is foundational for the faith commitments of many.”
—Ralph W. Hood Jr., PhD, professor, former president of the Division of Psychology of Religion
of the American Psychological Association, recipient of its William James Award, and author
of The Psychology of Religion, 4th ed. (with Peter Hill and Bernard Spilka) and Them that
Believe (with W. Paul Williamson)
“Phillip Wiebe'’s Visions and Appearances of Jesus makes available to
analysis of claimed perceptual appearances of Jesus. In light of Wiebe’s
careful and judicious approach, always avoiding the temptation to
claim more than the evidence warrants, his conclusion that naturalistic
explanations of such experiences fail badly is hard to dispute. This is a
book that deserves to be read by both sceptic and Christian alike.”
—Robert Larmer, PhD, professor and chair of the department of philosophy, University of
New Brunswick, author of Water Into Wine? An Investigation of the Concept (McGill-
of Miracle
Queen’s University Press, 1988), “The Meaning of Miracles” in The Cambridge Companion
to Miracles, ed. Graham H. Twelftree (Cambridge University Press, 2011), The Legitimacy of
Miracle (Lexington, Press, 2014)
the non-specialist reader the results of his extensive investigation and
“Jesus’ apostles believed that the time between his first and second
coming would be one during which his followers would dream dreams
and see visions. Philip Wiebe’s new book gathers just some of the vast
testimonial ‘evidence’ for such phenomena, not only reaching back
through Christian history but also documenting and preserving a
range of interesting present-day accounts. Such a non-sensationalistic,
informed, and yet eminently accessible treatment is incalculably
valuable as it invites thoughtful people, believers and skeptics alike, to
reconsider matters of faith and reason that oftentimes are dismissed
prematurely.”
—Amos Yong, author of Who is the Holy Spirit: A Walk with the Apostles
written and historically sound.”
difficult to assimilate and marks out the historical ground. It is clearly
—Leslie Armour, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, research professor of philosophy at
the Dominican University College at Carleton University in Ottawa, professor emeritus at the
“Professor Wiebe,a philosopher of science, pays serious attention to
religious experience. Visions and Appearances of Jesus addresses long-
standing puzzles: Jesus is believed to have overcome his own death but
is no longer to be found easily in our visible world. This book uses recent
interviews with people who have had surprising experiences which are
University of Ottawa. His books include The Rational and the Real, Being and Idea, and Logic
and Reality
“Carefully and with clarity Phillip Wiebe makes the case that historical
and contemporary reports of visionary encounters with Jesus are to be
taken seriously. Moreover, evaluating these accounts, he suggests the
encountered him in ways that were very real and sometimes resembled
the physical encounters of ordinary life. Not only is this book wonderfully
well written and easy to read, it makes the important case that religious
experience cannot be prematurely dismissed.”
—Graham H. Twelftree, Charles L. Holman Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity,
the School of Divinity, Regent University
experiences support the claim that, after Easter, Jesus’ first followers
“According to anthropological research, ninety percent of people
on the planet routinely experience visions and other alternate states
of consciousness.
In this book,
Professor Wiebe
summarizes
his
which is central to these visions. This is beyond the reach of the empirical
interviews of thirty subjects who had visions of Jesus and comments
on their experiences. He rightly highlights the importance and value
of experiential knowledge relative to empirical knowledge. Experiential
knowledge points to the existence of an alternate or spiritual reality
method. The clear and engaging style of this book recommends it for
a wide readership interested in understanding human experience and
its ability to know spiritual reality.”
—John J. Pilch, PhD, lecturer in the Odyssey Program at Johns Hopkins University; previously,
a visiting professor of biblical literature at Georgetown University (1993-2011); author of
Visions and Healing in the Acts of the Apostles (The Liturgical Press, 2004) and Flights of the
Soul (Wm. B. Eerdmans Publ. Co., 2011)
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