IT'S FASTER TO HEAVEN IN A 747

by William Sheraton ‧ RELEASE DATE: June 20, 1973

God and religious conviction are gut feelings,"" writes William Sheraton. And he proceeds, in a series of twelve short essays, to explain what he means from his own experience. That experience is somewhat unusual, since Mr. Sheraton was a pilot for a major airline before turning clergyman, and he makes use of it to argue -- as Aristotle and Aquinas before him -- that the world and people could not be so wonderful or so complex if there were no God. The book has an old-fashioned, golly-gee quality about it that is not wholly without charm, notwithstanding the grinding cliches. Under all the folksiness, however, Sheraton is a perceptive critic of what is sham and what is real in today's Church, from the ruffles on altar boys' cassocks to the law of universal love, from the ""in"" jokes of seminarians to ""neurotic women who use the clergy as surrogate, asexual husbands and sons."" All in all, a series of personal reflections which have neither great importance nor great style, but which are nonetheless amusing and occasionally provocative.

Pub Date: June 20, 1973

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Sheed & Ward

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: June 1, 1973

Categories: NONFICTION