The Church and Spiritualism

by Herbert Thurston

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Genres: Paranormal

412 pages, Paperback

First published January 3, 1933

About the author

Father Herbert Thurston, SJ was educated at Stonyhurst and London University. He entered the Society of Jesus and was master of Beaumont College from 1880 to 1887. Thurston was ordained in 1890.

Thurston wrote more than 150 articles for the Catholic Encyclopedia (1907-1914) and published nearly 800 articles in magazines and scholarly journals.

Father Thurston joined the Society for Psychical Research in 1919 and became an expert on spiritualism, writing several books on the subject.

Reviews

[Diane · Rating 4 out of 5]

Overall a good critically thought out work. Fr. Thurston did not deny that certain phenomena did occur, but he kept a healthy skepticism over events that were questionable. Well worth reading if you're involved in any type of paranormal research.