Death & Resurrection: Bodies, Souls, & Christian Hope
What is your ultimate hope?
Is there more to the "good news" than what lies beyond?
Could God's work now continue into eternal life?
For much of American Christianity the presumed ultimate hope is “going to heaven”. Yet, our confession of faith is that we look for the resurrection of the dead and the life everlasting. Christian hope waits for God to act. Just as God created us in this life so one day God in Christ will raise us to new life (with new imperishable bodies). We are far more than just immortal spirits.
Is there more to the "good news" than what lies beyond?
Could God's work now continue into eternal life?
For much of American Christianity the presumed ultimate hope is “going to heaven”. Yet, our confession of faith is that we look for the resurrection of the dead and the life everlasting. Christian hope waits for God to act. Just as God created us in this life so one day God in Christ will raise us to new life (with new imperishable bodies). We are far more than just immortal spirits.
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PowerPoint slides from Week #1
Here we set up the class, analyze some of the challenges, and make clear the confession of our hope which is represented in the creeds. |
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PowerPoint slides from Week #2
Here we review the main points from last week, offer specific critique of Neo-Platonic Philosophy and then discuss the implications of Jesus' Death and Resurrection. |
Week 2 Video notes:
This week has almost 15 minutes of review. (New content begins at 14:55) We do not cover all that I had planned so there are more slides in the PDF than the video covers. We will pick up with the rest next week.
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We continue with conversations about Jesus' Death and Resurrection and the implications for our life of faith. In this time we hit on: why this conversation is so important, the plausibility of resurrection, what our resurrected bodies might be like, and the implications of Jesus continuing to have a body as relates to the Ascension and Sacraments.
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PowerPoint slides from Week #3
You are invited to consider resurrection hope. |
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The fourth week of our class. This week looks at how God's promises of Resurrection apply not just to humans but the entire creation. The implications of this hope expand how we live in the world now. With the hope that the good, beautiful, and life filled things we are a part of now will be miraculously brought into the new creation.
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PowerPoint slides Week #4
The whole creation waits for redemption. |
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Week #5 - Notes and Handouts - NO VIDEO THIS WEEK
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And to acknowledge how little our intellectualizing of death and grief saves us, there is this: