Building for the kingdom of God.

Handout for week 4 - Purgatory, Paradise and Hell

Handout for Hope of New Creation part 3

Day 2 - The Resurrection of Jesus (outline)

Handout - Setting the Scene

Building for the kingdom of God - the final session looks at living in the power of the new creation now - in the areas of justice, beauty and evangelisation. (25'17")

In the second part of the fourth session, we turn to consider the nature of Paradise (or heaven) and how we can begin to understand how a loving God allows the existence of a place that is beyond hope and beyond pity - hell.

In this first part of the fourth session, we consider the vexed question of Purgatory, drawing from the insights of Pope Benedict in his 2007 encyclical Spe Salvi.

The third session of the Hope of New Creation.  In the second part of this session we look at the nature of the redemption of our bodies. (15'06")

The third session of the Hope of New Creation. In this first part, we look at the Ascension of Jesus and what this mystery might mean for us - about absence and presence. Then we consider the Second Coming of Jesus and the often misunderstood idea of the 'Rapture'. (14'31")

Day 2 in the Hope of New Creation series. (Part 2) Now we turn to the Gospels and examine a number of hypotheses that have been offered as to why the early Church may have been mistaken about the resurrection of Jesus (and how to refute them!) and then look at Paul's majesterial work on the resurrection - 1 Corinthians 15. (16'34")

Day 2 in the Hope of New Creation series. Today we look at life after death in the first century and consider how the early Christians modified the understanding of resurrection that was already present in second-Temple Judaism. (15'53")

What on earth are we doing for heaven's sake? What is the significance of the resurrection of Jesus for our lives today. What happens when we die? What do we hope for after death? Is heaven the ultimate destination, our final 'home'? Often our vision of heaven, the way that we imagine it, looks so terribly boring - is that true? Is the point of the Christian life just to 'save souls'? Does heaven have anything to say about things like global warming and the mission of the Church? Come along for a great Biblical journey from the dawn of creation to the second coming of Jesus and the final judgement to discover what it really means to be a citizen of heaven. // The first of a five-part lecture series, this first night reflects on the understanding of death in our society and the nature of Christian belief in the resurrection. (29'07")