Arrivals, The :: Afterlife / Heaven :: New Church Literature

The Arrivals
Naomi Smith

At Chicago's O'Hare Airport, Flight 785, bound for London and then Brussels, is boarded by a group of ordinary people from all walks of life. This sets the scene for the richly imagined plot that unfolds as the passengers continue their journey along a flight path for which they were hardly prepared.

A series of adventures gradually reveals each passenger's innermost being, and they all become aware that they are going to different final destinations.

The author dramatizes the afterlife as a place in which we learn who we truly have been, or rather who we truly are. She reveals that hell is neither external punishment nor other people, as Sartre thought, but rather ourselves, if we lack the capability of self-sacrifice and love. Similarly, heaven is reserved for those who have offered themselves in love and selflessness toward others.

ISBN: 0-87785-313-4, 336 pages, 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches, paperback, 2004

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SKU	09780877853138
Weight	1.00 lbs
Publisher	Chrysalis Books, Swedenborg Foundation
Material	Paperback
Price:	$15.95

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