Ian Wilson (writer)

Ian Wilson (born 1941) is the prolific author of religious and scientific books. He often mixes the two while examining such topics as the Shroud of Turin or life after death.

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Life

He was born in Clapham, south London, during World War II and some of his earliest memories are of the Blitz. Neither of his parents was religious. His school was nominally Church of England, but during scripture classes he was always, as he put it, "the number one sceptic". He graduated in Modern History from Magdalen College, Oxford.[1]

He first came across the Shroud during the 1950s, when he was in his mid-teens, in an illustrated article by World War II hero Group Captain Leonard Cheshire. It was the famous image on the negative of the Shroud that dealt the first blow to his formerly complacent agnosticism. In 1972 he converted to Roman Catholicism.[1]

He has written and presented a three part Channel 4 TV series based on his book Jesus: The Evidence.

In his book The Columbus Myth: Did Men of Bristol Reach America Before Columbus? (1992) he claims that Bristol mariners had reached America before Columbus as early as the 1480s.[2]

He lived in Bristol, England for twenty-six years and now resides in Brisbane, Australia with his wife, Judith. They have two sons, Adrian and Noel.[1]

Publications

References

  1. ^ a b c Sharyn McCowen. "Sceptic gives 'resounding yes' to truth of Shroud". The Catholic Weekly, 23 May 2010.
  2. ^ Ian Wilson The Columbus Myth: Did Men of Bristol Reach America Before Columbus? Simon & Schuster Ltd, 1992 ISBN 0671711679

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