title: Apparitions, Healings, and Weeping Madonnas: Christianity and the Paranormal
author:  Lisa J Schwebel 
description: "I found this a fascinating and provocative treatment of the relationship between psychology and religious experience. This controversial subject is one of the most important challenges of our time. Lisa Schwebel makes good use of the work of Karl Rahner in her admirable effort to understand God's ways with humankind She is respectfully open to the transcendent and to emerging new psychological theories."
zlib_text: Weeping
  
    
  
  Icons,
  
    
  
  Relics,
  
    
  
  Stigmata,
  
    
  
  Visions &
  
    
  
  Healing
  
    
  
  Cures
  
    
  
  Joe Nickell
  
  Acknowledgments
  
  Many people assisted with this book. I am especially grateful to Robert A.
  Baker (Lexington, Kentucky) and Bruce Mazet (Citrus Heights, California) for
  providing helpful suggestions and research materials. I am also grateful to
  Herbert G. Schapiro (Warren, New Jersey), whose generosity in providing me
  with his clipping service for the past several years has resulted in many
  important inclusions in this book.
  
  I also wish to thank the staff members of the Margaret I. King Library,
  University of Kentucky, and the John F. Kennedy Memorial Library, West
  Liberty, Kentucky, for their assistance; the entire staff of the Committee for
  the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal, including Paul Kurtz
  (Chairman), Barry Karr (Executive Director), Kendrick Frazier (Editor of the
  Committee’s journal, Skeptical Inquirer), and the members of the executive
  council; and