Nature of God: a priest’s perspective

Key stage

KS4

Subject

Religious Education

Collection

Christian beliefs

Format

Video , PDF (1mb)

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Photograph of The Venerable Patricia Hillas talking about the Nature of God, as part of a series of films titled A Priest's Perspective
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Overview

Watch The Venerable Patricia Hillas, Canon Steward and Archdeacon at Westminster Abbey, discuss the nature of God as a Judge, what it means for God to be personal and how God can be loving if people suffer. As an Anglican priest, she answers these past GCSE exam questions in an age-appropriate way.

Download the accompanying teachers’ notes document, including a full transcript and follow-up tasks. These include a visual thinking exercise, a discussion activity and an exam-style essay question.

Curriculum links

Themes covered in this lesson are aligned to:

OCR

  • Nature of God

AQA 

  • The Nature of God

Edexcel

  • The problems [evil/suffering and a loving and righteous God] raises for Christians about the nature of God
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