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A Travel Guide to Heaven
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A Travel Guide to Heavenby Anthony Destefano
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58 of 69 people found the following review helpful: An uplifting view of Heaven, and a great read, too!, September 22, 2003 Reviewer:Lisa (NJ, USA) - Wow...I bought this book on a lark, and I'm so glad I did. I've read other books that explore the subject of the afterlife, but none was ever as uplifting as this one. Other books on life after death were always either a little scary or strange. This author doesn't claim to have actually been to Heaven, but instead uses solid research to back up his vision of life after death. After I finished the book, I was left with feelings of hope and security. I can see how it would be comforting for someone who recently lost a loved one, or someone who is struggling with illness themselves. I've already purchased this book for two of my friends--it's the kind of book that, once you read it, you want to share it with others. Overall, a great read!
From Publishers Weekly
Forget angels playing harps. In this fascinating, comforting book, DeStefano takes the reader on a tour of heaven, painting it as a dynamic place of unlimited joy, and using Scripture and dramatic imagination to fill in details about the afterlife. "God doesn't throw away the good things he creates," he writes, an idea which is the basis of many of his speculations about heaven. Heaven is a tangible place, believes DeStefano, and at least part of it will be a transformed new earth. People will have their own recognizable bodies, only perfected. DeStefano tackles tough questions about heaven, including the role of angels, the measurement of time, marriages and whether pets will be there ("Of course!"). Fears of boredom are dispelled with his depictions of possible activities ("How about a tour of the Andromeda galaxy?") and creative work ("Books will be written and read, public structures will be built and utilized"). However, he writes that nothing will compare with the thrill of meeting God, the source of true happiness. DeStefano persuasively argues that the idea of heaven is a positive force on earth, since "faith in God and heaven makes you more interested in what you do in this life-not less." He is neither an academic nor a professional theologian, which gives the book its delightfully conversational tone and frees him to conjecture without restraint. Many readers will find DeStefano's solid Christian framework reassuring and his exciting picture of heaven compelling.
Copyright 2003 Reed business Information, Inc.
From AudioFile
This bizarre account of what heaven is "really" like embraces the best of religion and the worst of puerile, fatuous fantasy. It's hard to determine if DeStefano is toying with the listener as he recounts such promised heavenly events as art lessons from Michelangelo, tossing around a baseball with Joe DiMaggio, and banquets of spaghetti and chianti in the afterlife's version of Rome. The nasal New Yorker tries to support his feel-good Disneyesque theories with biblical quotations and vague ideas entwined with bouncy faith and optimism. But only the most gullible and childish will believe this Richard-Simmons-style pep talk about the afterlife. An oddity at best, this travel guide is best left in the motel drawer with Gideon's Bible--meant for the weary and, in this case, desperate traveler. D.J.B. © AudioFile 2003, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.
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