Doubter's Guide to Heaven: Walking a Path from Doubt to Trust

Often a crisis in life will bring about a crisis of faith. Confronted with our own mortality, sometimes we find we no longer are sure about what we know, and our hoped-for promise of heaven collides with our deepest fears and doubts. In this book, author Terry Giles tells how his wife’s cancer diagnosis and his own subsequent crisis of faith led him on a journey for answers to his painfully honest questions about the nature of life, the reality of life after death, and the true character of God. This book serves as a traveling companion not just for those in the midst of crisis, but for all faith pilgrims on journeys of their own. The author explores biblical texts in search of answers and discovery, and he provides a reassuring voice that there is hope to be found in moving from doubt to trust. A discussion guide is included.

Often a crisis in life will bring about a crisis of faith. Confronted with our own mortality, sometimes we find we no longer are sure about what we know, and our hoped-for promise of heaven collides with our deepest fears and doubts. In this book, author Terry Giles tells how his wife’s cancer diagnosis and his own subsequent crisis of faith led him on a journey for answers to his painfully honest questions about the nature of life, the reality of life after death, and the true character of God. This book serves as a traveling companion not just for those in the midst of crisis, but for all faith pilgrims on journeys of their own. The author explores biblical texts in search of answers and discovery, and he provides a reassuring voice that there is hope to be found in moving from doubt to trust. A discussion guide is included.

TERRY GILES is a university professor of religious studies in Pennsylvania and has taught biblical studies for the past twenty years. He has authored and coauthored several books and numerous articles on the Old Testament and related fields. Terry combines a passion for scholarship with a concern to communicate in plain language and loves opening the Bible to people who have never read it before. In addition to his teaching career in the United States and Canada, he has led explorations of the Old Testament with students in such places as England, Thailand, and Ethiopia. Terry and his wife, Cheryl, have three children and make their home in Erie, Pennsylvania.