This picture depicts the resurrection day and the belief that some Christians have that when people die their souls remain in the grave until the last day when the dead will be raised and given new resurrection bodies.Stanley Spencer painted many pictures of his home village Cookham in Berkshire. These paintings capture Spencer's own peculiar vision of Christianity. This painting is of the church yard at Cookham on resurrection day. Look carefully and you will see the figure of Christ in the church doorway with God the Father behind him. Various of the dead are rising up out of their graves. Spencer himself is the naked figure leaning against a tomb stone in the centre of the painting. His girlfriend Hilda is the woman lying amongst the ivy.
Revising Christian attitudes to life after death
Questions about belief in life after death are not easy. To help your revision, focus on learning the two key terms, resurrection of the body and immortality of the soul.
- resurrection of the body = the belief that after death the body stas in the grave until the end of the world, when it is raised
- immortality of the soul = the idea that the soul lives on after the death of the body
This will help you especially if you are asked for two different Christian points of view. You also need to make sure you can spell 'resurrection' correctly.
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