On the Turin Shroud: Weighing the Medieval Radiocarbon Date in the Balances

In this note it is proposed that all of the points of contention that divide those that advocate the in authenticity of the Turin Shroud on the grounds of the 1988 radiocarbon date and those that advocate its authenticity can be divided into 4 exhaustive categories: Age, Form, Origin, and Method. Its purpose is, not to detail every point of contention, but to describe a schema by reference to which all the points of contention can be expressed in a simple manner, and in a manner which allows the logical commitments of the contenders to be unambiguously displayed and compared.