Hell: A Guide

by Anthony DeStefano

Overview

“The best book on hell ever written”. - Dr. Eastman, founding member and president, America’s National Prayer Committee

Anthony DeStefano, the bestselling author of A Travel Guide to Heaven, takes us on an exploration of hell, the devil, demons, and evil itself. Written with clarity, logic, and vivid storytelling, Hell: A Guide takes up questions such as:

• Is hell a place or a state of being?
• What does hell look like?
• What kind of suffering do people in hell experience?
• What are the devil and demons really like?

Rooted in solid, orthodox Christian scholarship, this one-of-a-kind book investigates everything there is to know about one of the most fascinating, yet often misunderstood, subjects of all time.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780718080617
Publisher:	Nelson, Thomas, Inc.
Publication date:	06/16/2020
Pages:	256
Sales rank:	367,590
Product dimensions:	5.60(w) x 8.50(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Anthony DeStefano is the bestselling author of A Travel Guide to Heaven, Ten Prayers God Always Says Yes To, and Inside the Atheist Mind, as well as many award-winning children's books. He has appeared on numerous national television and radio programs, including Fox's America's Newsroom, Fox and Friends, Huckabee, The 700 Club, Focus on the Family Radio, and Janet Parshall's In the Market.

Table of Contents

An Infernal Itinerary: Why Would Anyone Want a Guide to Hell? xiii

Chapter 1 The Starting Point of Our Trip: The Enemy Within 1

Chapter 2 The Origin of Hell: The Story of the Demons 13

Chapter 3 Halfway to Hell: The Moment of Death 27

Chapter 4 Falling Like Lightning: What Judgment Really Means 39

Chapter 5 Avoiding a Wrong Turn: How to Make Sense of Spiritual Suffering 51

Chapter 6 A Preview of Pain: Suffering in Hell Before the Resurrection 63

Chapter 7 Arrival in Hell: The Last Judgment 77

Chapter 8 A Monstrous Makeover: The Human Body in Hell 89

Chapter 9 Exploring the Terrain: What Does Hell Really Look Like? 103

Chapter 10 Activities in Hell Part I: Enslavement to the Demons 115

Chapter 11 Activities in Hell Part II: Punishments to Fit the Crime 129

Chapter 12 Activities in Hell Part III: Relationships in the City of the Damned 143

Chapter 13 A Day in Hell: On the Question of Infernal Time 157

Chapter 14 Hell on Earth: Front-Row Seats to Immortal Combat 171

Chapter 15 Ticket to Hell? Deciding Whether or Not to Make the Trip 183

Acknowledgments 195

Appendix: Hell, Satan, and the Demons in the Bible 197

Bibliography 215

Notes 225

About the Author 235

Editorial Reviews

04/20/2020

In this disappointing study, DeStefano (A Travel Guide to Heaven), host of TV show A Travel Guide to Life, aims to report “what hell is actually like.” Hell, DeStafano explains, has been famously depicted by C.S. Lewis and Dante Alighieri and furiously debated by theologians and philosophers across time. DeStefano contends that once a person dies, their soul leaves their body, “falling” into a hell of immense pain filled with “spritualized hellfire” that one’s material body cannot comprehend, before finally meeting God for the Last Judgment. He sidesteps some of the thorniest issues about the afterlife by not addressing purgatory and offering only superficial treatment of alternative theories on hell and what comes after death within the Christian tradition. Opting instead to preach to his own conservative-leaning choir and declare those who disagree with him “traitors,” DeStefano draws on traditionalist readings of classical Christian philosophy, morality, and a supplement of biblical texts that offers little rigor. Instead, DeStefano is left to speculate about many details of hell and closes with an evangelistic call: “the words of Christ and the clear thinking of the church... testify to the real existence of hell, but so does common sense.” This flimsy analysis will only find an audience with devoted Christian readers. (June)

Publishers Weekly