Christianity: Religion, Gender and Sexuality | AQA A-Level Religious Studies (7062)

Christianity: Religion, Gender and Sexuality

  • 32 questions
  • 2 subtopics
  • Component 2: Christianity, one religion of five
  • Component 2

Christianity: changing thought on gender roles, marriage and sexuality.

Part of Component 2, sat only by students who take Christianity as their chosen religion.

Sample questions from Christianity: Religion, Gender and Sexuality

Answer each one closed book first, then open the answer.

  1. Biblical Criticism and Gender Roles

    What external factor relating to secular governments has shaped Christian views on gender and sexuality?

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    Rights given to women by secular governments have influenced developments in Christian thinking.
  2. Biblical Criticism and Gender Roles

    How do Hampson and Ruether differ in their feminist approaches to Christianity's patriarchal nature?

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    Hampson sees Christianity as irreformable, while Ruether believes it can be reformed from within.
  3. Female Ordination in the Church of England

    Which biblical arguments do conservative evangelicals use against the ordination of women?

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    Jesus chose only men as the twelve apostles, and passages such as 1 Timothy 2:12 and 1 Corinthians 11:3 are read as teaching male headship, so a woman should not hold teaching authority over a congregation.
  4. Female Ordination in the Church of England

    How did the Church of England come to consecrate women as bishops?

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    After the legislation failed in the House of Laity in November 2012, General Synod approved women bishops in July 2014, and Libby Lane was consecrated Bishop of Stockport at York Minster on 26 January 2015.

The 2 subtopics

One subtopic is one session. Work down the list.

Subtopic What it covers Questions
Biblical Criticism and Gender Roles Recall questions on when biblical criticism developed, what it opened up for scholars and the passages central to debates over gender. 16
Female Ordination in the Church of England How the Church of England came to ordain women, from the 1992 vote and the first women priests in 1994 to women bishops in 2015, with the arguments on both sides and the continuing debate over provision for those opposed. 16
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How the guide is worked

Answering a question from memory stores it far better than reading the answer again. The guide runs that as a fixed procedure on one subtopic at a time, about twenty minutes a session.

  1. Step 1 · Closed book

    Cover the answers. Work through one subtopic and write down what you can. Leave blanks where you have nothing.

  2. Step 2 · Open book

    Go back to the top. Read each printed answer and write it out in full, including the ones you had right.

  3. Step 3 · Closed book again

    Same questions, same order, from memory. The gap between pass one and pass three is the session result.

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