A TRAVEL GUIDE TO HEAVEN
Book ID/图书代码： 10730009B32093
English Summary/英文概要： A recent Newsweek poll reports that 76 percent of Americans believe in heaven. Yet even avid believers have difficulty conjuring up more than vague images of halos, harps, and wispy angels in flowing robes. Anthony DeStefano knew there had to be a more complete, meaningful, and comforting vision of what heaven is like, and A Travel Guide to Heaven is the entertaining and enlightening result.
Using the Bible as his guide, the author notes that heaven is not only a spiritual place, but also a physical place, a fabulous “luxury resort” more sumptuous than any on Earth. The residents are real, their bodies transformed into their most perfect selves—physically, emotionally, and spiritually. By making a spiritual subject immensely physical, the book provides a picture of amazing places to visit, things to do, luxuries for pampering—not to mention deep, abiding joy.
Combining the clarity and logic of C. S. Lewis with a terrific sense of fun and adventure, DeStefano creates a brilliant, reassuring portrait of heaven, a place that has intrigued and puzzled humankind throughout history. With its clear view of the afterlife, A Travel Guide to Heaven might best be compared to James Van Praagh’s Talking to Heaven or Betty J. Eadie’s Embraced by the Light in its tremendous message of comfort and reassurance.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 美国新闻周刊的一次调查显示，近76%的美国人相信有天堂的存在。但除去光环、竖琴以及天使等粗枝大略的叙述之外，即便是对此确信不疑的人，也很难描述出天堂的概况。安东尼德斯蒂法诺则深信，对于天堂的存在，一定会有更为透彻详尽、令人备感鼓舞的描述。源于这样的目的，本书应运而生。
借助于圣经，作者指出，天堂绝非单单存在于精神世界之中，在地球的某处，也确实存有一个真实且无比奢华的圣地。将一个意识性的话题无限具象化，本书向我们展现出了一幅多姿多彩的蓝图，除了无尽的欢悦之外，更有众多的奇景和奢华以供享受。
清晰与条理并重，同时又不乏趣味及刺激，面对这个令人类困惑许久的问题，德斯蒂法诺将一幅灿烂清晰的天堂景象呈现到了我们的面前。文中对于死后的世界进行了清晰的描述，令得本书毫不逊色于詹姆斯·范普拉(James Van Praagh)的"对话天堂"(Talking to Heaven)，以及贝蒂·伊娣的"我有死亡经验"(Embraced by the Light).(AW)
Awards/获奖情况：A Travel Guide to Heaven was published by Doubleday in September of 2003. To date, it has sold 184,386 copies nationwide. 在美國瘋狂銷售25萬本！
《天堂之旅》〈A Travel Guide to Heaven〉是亞馬遜網站(Amazon)及《出版人周刊》(Publisher weekly)銷售第一名的宗教暢銷書。
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About the Author/作者介绍： The best selling author of A Travel Guide To Heaven (Doubleday, 2003), and Ten Prayers God Always Says Yes To, (Doubleday, 2007) Anthony DeStefano has a diverse background in business and media. After attending Stuyvesant High School in New York City, he graduated summa cum laude from St. John’s University in Staten Island with a degree in Philosophy/Theology. He then became President of Fulton Electronics Corp., managing a chain of electronics retail outlets in New York. During this time he also worked as a regular op-ed columnist for the Staten Island Advance.
In 2003, Anthony’s first book, A Travel Guide to Heaven, was published by Doubleday, as well as Random House Audio, Transworld Publishers in the United Kingdom and a host of other major publishing houses in Europe, Asia and South America. The book was a runaway bestseller and has been published in 16 different languages.
Anthony has received many awards and honors from religious communities throughout the world. In 2002, he was given an honorary Doctorate from the Joint Academic Commission of the National Clergy Council and the Methodist Episcopal Church for "the advancement of Christian beliefs in modern culture." The commission is made up of outstanding Evangelical, Orthodox and Protestant theologians and educators. In 2003, he was awarded the "Defender of Israel" medal from the International Center for Peace Studies, in Jerusalem.
Today, Anthony is a successful entrepreneur who heads three companies based in New York. He is also a Knight of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, a member of the National Religious Broadcasters Organization (NRB), the Royal Institute of Philosophy, in London, and the prestigious International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), also based in the United Kingdom.
An avid pilot, Anthony serves as a senior member of the US Air Force’s auxiliary Civil Air Patrol.
In 2010, Anthony will be releasing three books: two children’s books from WaterBrook Publishing, called: This Little Prayer of Mine, and Little Star, as well as an adult gift-book for Zondervan, called: I Just Can’t Take it Anymore!
2003年的畅销书"天堂之旅"(A Travel Guide to Heaven)，是作者安东尼的处女作。先后被译成16种语言而热销欧洲、亚洲及南美等地。与此同时，他还获得了宗教界的多个奖项及殊荣。2010年，安东尼还将出版两本童书: "我的小小祷告"(This Little Prayer of Mine)，小星星(Little Star)，以及一本成人书籍: "忍无可忍"(I Just Can’t Take it Anymore).
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