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How the Shroud of Turin can help one Reflect on one’s Faith The Shroud of Turin is an iconic relic that may invoke Christians to objectively examine their faith. Because of the nature of the Shroud, Christians and scientists alike grapple with its secret. If the Shroud of Turin is the actual burial cloth of Christ, something magnificent happened to the body within that Shroud. Investigating the Shroud of Turin encourages a Christian to reflect on his/her faith by looking at Trenn’s description of the Shroud, examining the dating methods of the Shroud of Turin, and acknowledging the mystery within the Shroud that cannot be explained by science. In Trenn’s article he gives explicit descriptions of the Shroud of Turin which invokes ones imagination and thus causes one to reflect on Jesus. Trenn explains that the Shroud of Turin is a piece of material which measures over 14 feet long and over three foot wide, and is thought to be the garment that Christ was wrapped in after the crucifixion (Trenn, 1997). Trenn gives great attention in explaining…

The Shroud of Turin is one of the most analyzed artifacts in the world, consuming well over 100,000 hours of research. It bears the image of a bearded man who was crucified. The wounds shown on the Shroud are similar to the ones that Jesus suffered as described in the four gospels, and many believe that it is the Shroud in which Jesus was wrapped after his crucifixion. The history of the Shroud is uncertain because it did not seem to surface until the 6th century, but because there is no…

was successful in creating a kingdom due to the influence of Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour, the power of Victor Emmanuel II, and a series of revolutionary wars that allowed city-states to be free. Political leaders such as Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour sparked nationalism within Italy and promoted togetherness due to the tiredness of being controlled by other countries. Known commonly as just Cavour, Camillo Benso was a leader in the Risorgimento movement. He was born in 1810 in Turin to a…

Survival in Auschwitz is an account of a Jewish man’s experience in a Nazi death camp. Primo Levi, the author and main character, wrote the book as part of his therapy for the trauma he experienced from being in Auschwitz. The memoir begins with Levi describing his living in the mountains as part of a group that hoped to join the resistance movement preceding his capture by the Nazis and imprisonment in a detention camp. Following this he and the other Jewish people in the camp are brought to…

In 1861 different kingdoms ruled Italy until Garibaldi join army and unified the country into one; hoping the tyranny will be banish. Garibaldi thought that this achievement would join the southern and northern of Italy, and finally achieve freedom for the south of Italy. However, the northern of Italy saw the southern Italy peasants as “dirt” and will not care for them. In fact, the rulers of northern Italy decided to tax everything. Consequentially the southern people of Italy started suffer…

Three middle-aged European men single-handedly helped shape Europe to the land you see today. Before, Germany was a couple of Germanic states with no future of unification. Italy was seemingly worse, divided into three parts under three foreign rulers. During the 19th century the Germanic and Italian states, with the help of Garibaldi, Cavour, and Von Bismark, united using political and physical force through Nationalism. Count Camillo di Cavour used both physical and political force to unify…

question has baffled many researchers, archeologists, and even Christians, for the Bible does not give an explicit description of Jesus. Many artists have painted pictures of the Messiah, but no one knows whose depiction of Christ is the correct one. In this paper, I will be analyzing three paintings that depict Jesus. The three paintings I will be analyzing are Head of Jesus by Warner Sallman, Jesus of the People by Janet McKenzie, and Reconstruction of the Face of Jesus, a scientific…

One of them is the Shroud of Turin. This shroud is believed to have been the shroud that actually covered Jesus when he was buried. It is a burial garment used to bury the dead. Being discovered in 1898, the shroud demonstrated an outline of a man with a beard and physical wounds on his body. After this discovery, a team of thirty-three members was created in order to deeply examine the shroud. The team is called the U.S. Shroud of Turin Project. Each member of the team worked days and nights…

Millions of Catholics every year go to worship the Shroud of Turin in Turin, Italy. These Catholics believe that this cloth was in the tomb with Jesus Christ of Nazareth. But, there is no evidence that this cloth is actually what it claims to be. “The linen cloth, believed by some to have wrapped the body of Jesus Christ...It shows the back and front of a bearded man, his arms crossed on his chest. It is marked by what appear to be rivulets of blood from wounds in the wrists, feet and side.” As…

00000 In 2011, Bella Torr and Agnes Hranitzky were directed a Hungarian philosophical drama film The Turin Horse, starring Janos Derrzsi as Ohisdorfer(stableman),Enika Brok as Ohisdorfer’s daughter(stableman’s daughter), Mihlay Kormas as Bemhard(drunken man) and Ricsi as the horse. The film was written by Torr and Laszlo Krasznahorkai. Title of the film makes describe to a notorious event in the life of Fredrich Nirtzsche. In 1889, during travelling in Turin; Fredrich Nirtzsche witnessed the…