Extracts from Teacher’s notes on Film 2: Resurrection
Possible Starter Activities
Fill in the Missing Words
1. How did the Maccabean hero predict the ‘King of the
World’ would preserve the dying martyrs? (1:06) 2. Name the Greek tyrant who wanted the Jews to worship him as a God and eat swine in the Temple? (1.39) 3. Previous to belief in resurrection, what was the place that Jews focused on for belief in life after death? (1:55) 4. In what century were the Jews exiled to Babylon? (2:24) 5. What is the name for the belief that the soul is linked to the body? (3:08) 6. Who said ‘I am the resurrection and the life’? (4:47) 7. How did the disciples show that they believed in Jesus’ resurrection? (6:26) 8. To which disciple did Jesus show his crucifixion wounds and suggest that he place his hand in his side? (7:33) 9. Complete the following taken from the Nicene Creed ‘We look for the - - - - - - - - - - - - of the - - - - and the life of the world to come (8:56) 10. What was St Paul called before his conversion? (9:10) 11. Soma pneumatikon and soma psychikon words to describe a natural and a spiritual body. Which is which? (10:57-11:08) 12. ‘What have our bodies been called rather than a fact? (12:23) 13. According to John Hick, what kind of person might God recreate at the moment of our death? (14:09) 14. Why is Bernhard Williams unhappy about relying on memory as an identifier? (15:18-15:24) 15. Summarise one other argument against the replica theory of Hick. (15:30 – 16:40)
Anagram Race: In teams or individually, race students against
each other to unscramble the following anagrams – all mentioned in the Resurrection film CASEBAME LEOSH UTONCHIAS HISANEPPE KICH TIMSON ARUZSAL KEELIXE MOAS TIMEKOPUNNA MOAS SYPIHCOKN (Macabees, Sheol, Antiochus Epiphanes, Hick, Monist, Lazsarus, Exekiel, Soma Pneumatikon, Soma Psychikon)