MY COMMENT (edited for one typo): “My problem with the shroud – and this extends even back to the time when I was of dogmatic religiosity – is the idea that divine action would leave such a physical trace. Spirit is not subject to (physical) matter. For such a divine act to leave such a residual seems to limit the spiritual. I haven’t read it, but things like this always make think of the title of Gloria Loring’s book: “ Coincidence Is God's Way of Remaining Anonymous.” The divine intent will be manifest, of course, but it seems strange to think of the divine touch leaving trace evidence. It reminds me of efforts to prove the existence of a “soul” by weighing a body just before and just after death. If such a soul is of the spiritual realm, it would have no physical weight. All of it goes to making life beyond, apparently subject to the physical, and thus itself physical. Almost a “Buffy the Vampire Slayer”-type view of the dead and demons. I enjoyed that show, ...
