6 Most Controversial Books of All Time

Poem of the Man God:
Poem of the Man God is a multi volume book with around five thousand pages on the life of Jesus Christ written by the Italian mystic Maria Valtorta. ‘The Gospel As It Was Revealed to Me’ is the latest title of the editions of the book. It is based on the over 15,000 handwritten pages produced by Maria between 1943 and 1947. During these years she informed of visions of Jesus and Mary and claimed personal conversations and dictations from Jesus. The book’s first copy was given to Pope Pius XII, and the three Servite priests who attended the 1948 papal audience stated that he gave his verbal approval to "publish this work as is". However, the Holy Office did not follow through with the publication and about a year after the death of Pius XII, it placed the book on the Index of Forbidden Books. The information in the book has been subjected to an array of non-theological analyses, from geographical studies to astronomical simulations to validate the chronology of Jesus.

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