Article The Resurrection of the Body
There are a number of different views of the afterlife presented in the Bible: Resurrection of the Body (but in what…
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VI. THE HOPE OF THE NEW HEAVEN AND THE NEW EARTH 1042 At the end of time, the Kingdom of God…
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source Eternal Life in the Gospel of John The core truth is encapsulated in John’s summary of the gospel: “For God…
Read MoreExtract – Paul on Resurrection
The Resurrection of Christ 15 Now, brothers and sisters, I want to remind you of the gospel I preached to you,…
Read MoreExtract – Aquinas on Purgatory
It is said (2 Maccabees 12:46): “It is a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead, that they may…
Read MoreStructure of Thought – Afterlife
What happens when we die? On what basis are human beings to experience the afterlife – our faith, our actions, or…
Read MoreStructure of Thought – Person of Christ
We rely on three things for our verdict of Jesus’ identity: the Gospel accounts, Church and academic Teaching and St Paul’s…
Read MoreStructure of Thought – Bonhoeffer Christian Moral Action
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945) was a major theologian and leader of the German Confessing Church established after the Barmen Declaration in 1935…
Read MoreStructure of Thought Augustine
Augustine (354-430 CE) argues that sin enters the world at the Fall (Genesis 3) where selfish lust leads to weakness of…
Read MoreSuggested Reading Richard Swinburne Coherence of Theism Ch 12
source God is immutable in his basic character, but this does not mean that he cannot change at all. He is…
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