Product Description: This book is Wiebe's defense of the claim that a significant form of spiritual experience is found in 'knowing something we have no right to know'. He selects forty-five first-hand accounts from a data-base at the University of Wales to make his case, and, in solidarity with those people, recounts something of his own experience...read more

Product Description: Can you imagine how extraordinary and transcendent it would be to have Jesus appear before you? For the people discussed in this book, that is just what happened. This book surveys these awe-inspiring accounts over the centuries and down to the present time...read more

Product Description: Many people believe in angels and evil spirits, and popular culture abounds in talk about encounters with such entities. Yet the question of the existence of such spirits is ignored in the academy. Even the Christian Church, which one might expect to show keen interest in transcendent realities, does not appear to be paying much attention...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Describes the experiences of thirty people who claim to have had visions of Jesus, discusses current research into hallucinations, and argues that these visions are genuine mystical experiences

Product Description: Examines the grounds upon which theistic belief might be justified as a reasonable theory. The Judaeo-Christian religious belief-system is used for purposes of illustration. It is argued that this system can be construed as one in which theoretical entities identified as gods are posited in order to account for unique events which appear to be otherwise inexplicable...read more