Worldwide "School for Shroud Studies"

We offer an extensive one day study seminar on the Shroud of Turin given either on-site at TSC headquarters in Colorado Springs, Colorado or anywhere in the United States or the world by the directors of TSC.

The School for Shroud Studies was formed in 1994 in order to provide those who are interested in learning more about the Shroud, but who live at distances far removed from TSC in Colorado, with the opportunity to delve into the complex and intriguing issues surrounding the Shroud. The presentation has recently been converted to a computer-based projection system, which allows great flexibility to explain visually a very complex subject. This computer system allows the audience to focus in on many close-up details of the Shroud and understand, by real-time visualizations and simulations, important characteristics of the Shroud, which otherwise can be quite abstract. What makes the School particularly useful is the ability to interact with and ask questions directly to the instructors.

TSC has developed an understanding of the Shroud that is unique amongst Shroud Scholars and researchers, but ideas that we believe are consistent with the totality of all scientific and historic data that is currently available on the Shroud. We have found nothing that is inconsistent with the beliefs of traditional Christianity. Moreover, we find that the Shroud, if authentic, enriches our understandings of Holy Thursday, Good Friday, and Easter Sunday. Our research provides insights as to how the Shroud was used by Christians during the First Millennium of its history.

The philosophy of the school is to back up each idea, concept, and conclusion with supporting data and facts. We draw upon and integrate not only the research work at TSC, but published work by other Shroud researchers as well. We hope to inspire a respect for the Shroud in a scholarly manner and to encourage students of our school to form their own conclusions regarding this important subject.

We explore in-depth, using our new computer-based presentational techniques, Shroud topics such as:

• History (Direct, new (non-image based) archaeological evidence found directly on the Shroud that it existed in Constantinople several centuries before the radiocarbon date)
• 1978 Scientific Expedition (A review of the experiments performed and conclusions reached)
• Image Formation (Scientific problems with various hypotheses, TSC's hypothesis)
• Jewish Characteristics (Cultural and ethnic elements, burial customs, TSC hypothesis that the Shroud was both burial cloth and tablecloth of the Last Supper)
• Radiocarbon Dating (Result, problems in applying to the Shroud, the road towards a resolution)
• Theology (TSC concept that the Shroud was an archaeological witness to Holy Thursday, Good Friday, and Easter Sunday)
• Relation of Shroud to other relics (Sudarium Domini of Oviedo, etc.)
• and more!

For more information, please call us at:

719-593-2375

or write us at

Turin Shroud Center of Colorado, P.O. Box 25326, Colorado Springs, CO 80918 USA