1. How would you describe the evolution from the notion of collective immortality to the notion of individual mortality?
2. How does the idea of resurrection reflect the image of God as being just?
Study Group
1. What scriptural stories, ideas, or quotes come to mind when you consider how history matters to our understanding of God?
2. What difference do you think belief in Jesus’ resurrection made to the apostles and the early church?
Individual
1. What would you offer to someone in your parish or congregation who said they didn’t believe in life after death?
2. When does believing in the resurrection seem easy? When does it seem hard?
2. Globe and Mail, August 2, 2012.
3. Crenshaw, “Love Is Stronger than Death,” 71–72.
4. Wright, Resurrection of the Son of God, 374.
5. Ignatius, Letter to the Smyrnaeans, 3 (ANF 1:87).
6. Tertullian, Five Books against Marcion, 5.9 (ANF 3:447–49).
7. Origen, Against Celsus, 2.52 (ANF 1:456).
8. Athanasius, Incarnation of the Word of God, 50 (NPNF2 4:63–64).
9. Augustine, City of God, 22.5 (NPNF1 2:481–82).
10. Aquinas, Summa Theologiae, III, Q55, Art. 6. Italics throughout are original to the quoted material.
11. Calvin, Institutes, 2.16.13.
12. Torrance, Space, Time, and Resurrection, 87.
3 The History of History
We all have our likes and dislikes when it comes to what comes out of Hollywood, and sometimes those likes and dislikes emerge as responses to the very same production.
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