PBWhy do most contemporary Christians pull a blank when it comes to imagining a life with God after deathBPPAlthough the Bible is largely silent on the issue our world is completely riveted by the uptodate visions of heaven and hell that stock bookstore shelves and are found everywhere on the Internet. But what are believers to think and to say about the undiscovered country that is the life to comefrom the pulpit at the hospital or in our daily livesPPPeter HawkinsIIoffers a fresh way to pose these questions along with an imaginative framework for answering them. He challenges all of us not just preachers to think of Dantes drama of the afterlifeheaven hell and purgatoryas a true story describing the lives we are living now. To this end Hawkins uses the Divine Comedy to help us imagine what happens when we die as he works his way through Christian tradition contemporary culture a rich array of literature and his own personal experience.P