Matt O'Reilly, PhD

I’ve been a pastor for twenty years. If there’s one thing people have questions about, it’s the afterlife. If there’s one thing people...

Reviews are starting to come in for Paul and the Resurrected Body: Social Identity and Ethical Practice (SBL Press). In particular, Chris...

Paul's hope for future bodily resurrection functions to cultivate a shared identity among the recipients that is ethnically inclusive.

Can Christians lose their salvation? Here's why 1 Corinthians 6 indicates that they can.

God Loses If there is no bodily resurrection, sin wins and God loses. God did not design human beings to die. All through scripture death...

Dissatisfied with Heaven So what are they waiting for? To answer that question we need to look more closely at their appeal. Their...

During my recent trip to Wilmore, Kentucky, I had the opportunity to film another episode for Seedbed‘s growing Seven Minute Seminary...

The newest episode of the SoWhat? Podcast aired earlier this week. This one is part 2 of a discussion about the resurrection of Jesus in...

The newest episode of the So What? Podcast went live today. This one is in two parts, and the topic is one of my favorites. That’s right:...

From The Coming of God: Christian Eschatology: The immortality of the soul is an opinion – the resurrection of the dead is a hope. The...

Our celebrations of Christ’s resurrection at Easter tend to be narrowly focused. The focus, all too often, drills down onto the...

Here’s the latest installment of Seedbed’s Seven Minute Seminary series in which I discuss several questions related to life after death,...

Today is Easter Sunday. Where better to turn than On the Incarnation by St. Athanasius? This is one of those books that I keep coming...

My latest guest post for Seedbed went live this morning. Here’s the intro: “Why celebrate Easter?” That’s an honest question that was put...

That’s what several standard Bible translations would have you think. The verse in question is 1 Corinthians 6:13a, and it turns out that...

The first two chapters introduce the reader to the various attitudes toward death and afterlife in the Old Testament and other ancient...

For Paul, the historicity of the resurrection of Christ and its “bodily” character are crucial. The historicity of the resurrection...

These questions and more have abounded for centuries; indeed, such questions are anticipated by the scriptures. In 1 Corinthians 15:35,...

Read the rest of this post offering four brief reflections on faith at Seedbed. _____ Image: Janaka Dharmasena/FreeDigitalPhotos.net...

Ye choirs of new Jerusalem Your sweetest notes employ The Paschal victory to hymn In strains of holy joy. How Judah’s Lion burst his...