Powers of Darkness Powers of Light:Travels in Search of the Miraculous and the Demonic

Cornwell,John (SIGNED COPY)

ISBN 10: 0670821039 / ISBN 13: 9780670821037

Published by Viking, London, 1991

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This is a Very Good + Copy of this book in Publisher's black cloth with gilt title lettering to spine in a Very Good Dust-Jacket with NO chips or tears to the outer edges of the wrapper.Not price clipped and this copy has been SIGNED by the Author without dedication on the Title Page.The book has a firm binding with no hinge weakness and there is no leaning or rolling to spine.Contents remain clean internally,8vo 395pp First Edition 1st Impression. Seller Inventory # 42832

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Title: Powers of Darkness Powers of Light:Travels ...

Publisher: Viking, London

Publication Date: 1991

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: First Edition

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Synopsis:

This is the story of a journey into a strange world of apparitions, prophecies, miracles of healing, levitation, holy relics, weeping statues, stigmata and demonic possession. The author follows a trail through Yugoslavia, Ireland, Spain, the USA, Canada, Italy and Britain, in search of proof or otherwise of divine or diabolical intervention. He investigates the Shroud of Turin, the liquefaction of the blood of St Januarius in Naples, a Eucharistic miracle in the Bronx and a weeping plaque of the Virgin in Sicily. He describes a curious and sometimes sinister landscape inhabited by prophets, saints, charismatic political leaders and exorcists and finds himself in conversation with Graham Greene, Professor A.J.Ayer and the Jesuit philosopher Father Frederick Copleston. Cornwell's journey culminates in a perspective that demonstrates the moral and spiritual benefits of popular mystical phenomena, whilst redeeming them both from scientific debunking and from rigid fundamentalist interpretation.