The Mystery of Death by Nikolaos P Vassiliadis Published by the Orthodox Brotherhood of Theologians, “The Saviour”, Athens, 1993. The significance of our Lord Jesus Christ’s Resurrection and conquest over death is thoroughly explored by Nikolaos P Vassiliadis in his highly acclaimed and much referenced work titled, The Mystery of Death. He commences with the profound impact of death upon all humanity and explores the secular and ancient Greeks’ view of death. He then explores how sin was the cause of death, the consequential separation of the soul and body, and how this punishment becomes a blessing through the incarnation [...]

What is the Kingdom of Heaven that Christ spoke of? The first answer that comes to kind is that Jesus is referring to Heaven, where hopefully we will go after we die.  Indeed, nothing is more important than this, the purpose of our life is to get to Heaven.  We all get stressed over many things, but if we could only see things clearly, then we would realise that by far the most important matter for all of us is to be close to God and to get to Heaven, and many of the things that we stress about are [...]