Worldview Conference & Lecture Series
Public Lecture: Like The Angels? Re-imagining Sexuality in God's Future.

The Da Vinci Code claims that Jesus and Mary were partners, but (biblical) truth is stranger than fiction. So what is the significance of Jesus being unmarried? What does Jesus mean when he says that the children of the resurrection will neither marry nor be given in marriage but are "like the angels"? Could this be an affirmation of who we are as male and female?

Explore these questions with Nik Ansell.

Nicholas Ansell, PhD (Free University, Amsterdam), MPhilF (Institute for Christian Studies), is the professor of theology at ICS. From 2001-2003 Ansell was assistant professor in theology at The King'sUniversity College in Edmonton, Alberta. He is interested in exploring the shape of a reformational theology sensitive to the spirituality of existence and to the eschatologically open nature of creation. He is also interested in examining the relationship between faith and belief in critical dialogue with proponents and critics of contemporary feminism, postmodernism and religious pluralism. Nik is the author of The Woman Will Overcome The Warrior: A Dialogue with the Christian/Feminist Theology of Rosemary Radford Ruether (University Press of America, 1994) and is currently working on a book on Jürgen Moltmann's view of Hell. Academic essays include "The Call of Wisdom/The Voice of the Serpent: A Canonical Approach to the Tree of Knowledge" (Christian Scholar's Review, Fall, 2001). He has been a regular contributor to the British magazine Third Way having edited its (biblical) "Commentary" section for seven years.