The Trinity: a priest’s perspective

Key stage

KS4

Subject

Religious Education

Collection

Christian beliefs

Format

Video , PDF (609kb)

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Photograph of The Reverend Mark Birch talking about the Trinity, as part of a series of films titled A Priest's Perspective
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Overview

Watch The Reverend Mark Birch, Minor Canon and Precentor at Westminster Abbey, explore why the Trinity is important to Christians, where it is revealed in the Bible and how it is reflected in Christian worship today. As an Anglican priest, he 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

  • Concept of God as a Trinity of persons

AQA 

  • The oneness of God and the Trinity

Edexcel

  • The Trinity
  • Biblical understandings of God as a Trinity of Persons