Creation: a priest’s perspective

Key stage

KS4

Subject

Religious Education

Collection

Christian beliefs

Format

Video , PDF (1mb)

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Photograph of The Reverend Mark Birch talking about Creation, 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, explain Christian beliefs about God the Creator, what the Bible teaches Christians about creation and how they respond to scientific explanations of the origins of the world. 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

  • Biblical accounts of Creation

AQA 

  • Creation

Edexcel

  • The creation of the universe and of humanity