BEYOND BELIEF

A Modern History of Revelation, Prophesy and Miracles


by

Geoffrey Poitras

(forthcoming)

Click here for theme music*

Image Gallery

St. Thomas (the Apostle)
Michelangelo de Carravagio (1571-1610)

David Hume (1711-1776)

Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)

Joan of Arc's Interrogation
Gillot Saint-Evre (1835)

Richard Price (1723-1791)

Adam Smith (1723-1790)

Rachel Carson (1907-1964)

Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)

Mary Shelley (1797-1851)

Isaac Newton (1643-1727)

Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543)

Spanish Inquisition in Belgium (1544)

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274)

Durer's Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1498)

Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797).

Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826).

Edmond Halley (1656-1742)

Martin Luther (1483-1546)

Saturn Devouring his Son (1820-3)
Francisco Goya (1746-1828)

Bulls and Bears in the Market
by WH Beard (1879)

Storm on the Sea of Galilee
Rembrandt (1633)

Saturn
Peter Paul Rubens (1686)

Gulliver's Travels (1726)

Hieronymus Bosch Garden of Earthly Delights (1504)

Saint Dominic presiding over an auto-da-fe against the Albigensians Berruguete (1475)

Charles Dickens (1812-1870)

Leader of the Luddites (pub. 1812) from a drawing by an officer

John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946)

Saint Thomas More (1478-1535)

Coalbrookedale by Night
Philip de Loutherbourg (1801)

William Morris (1834-1896)

Saint Eulalia
John Waterhouse (1885)

An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump
Joseph Wright of Derby (1768).

St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre (1572)
Francois Dubois (1529-1584)


A Collection of Phenomenological, Existential and Realist Modern Art Works

* Music from 'Death Cab for Cutie'

Table of Contents for

Beyond Belief





Here are some interesting links:
Site with info on VOC shipwrecks (search site for shipwrecks)
The Galileo project at Rice U.
The Ottoman Empire site
A site about Revelation and the Apocalypse
Preliminary Copy of Commodity Risk Management

Information on ordering can be obtained by emailing poitras@sfu.ca