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AQA · A-Level · 7062
Religious Studies
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Religious StudiesContents
Contents
68 topics, 275 subtopics
  1. Arguments for the Existence of God65
  2. Evil and Suffering33
  3. Religious Language35
  4. Self and Life After Death23
  5. Religious Experience65
  6. Miracles34
  7. Ethical Theories57
  8. Issues of Human Life and Death109
  9. Meta Ethics55
  10. Free Will and Moral Responsibility56
  11. Conscience73
  12. Bentham and Kant45
  13. and 56 more
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Evil and SufferingQuestions
Evil and Suffering
The Problem of Evil
  1. What is the problem of evil in philosophy of religion?
  2. Define natural evil.
  3. What is moral evil?
  4. What does the logical problem of evil claim about the relationship between evil and God's existence?
  5. How does the evidential problem of evil differ from the logical problem in its conclusion?
  6. In the logical problem of evil, what follows from God being omnipotent?
  7. According to the logical problem of evil, what does God's omniscience imply about evil?
  8. What does God's omnibenevolence entail regarding evil in the logical problem?
  9. What apparent contradiction arises when combining God's attributes with the reality of evil?
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Evil and SufferingAnswers
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The Problem of Evil
  1. The challenge of reconciling the existence of evil and suffering with belief in a God who is omnipotent, omniscient, and omnibenevolent.
  2. Suffering caused by non-human sources such as earthquakes, diseases, floods, and other natural phenomena.
  3. Suffering caused by the deliberate actions of human beings, such as murder, theft, cruelty, and war.
  4. It argues that the existence of evil is logically incompatible with the existence of an omnipotent, omniscient, and omnibenevolent God.
  5. It argues that while evil may not be logically incompatible with God's existence, the amount and distribution of evil makes God's existence highly improbable.
  6. God can prevent evil.
  7. God knows about evil.
  8. God wants to prevent evil.
  9. If God is all-powerful, all-knowing, and all-good, God should prevent evil, yet evil exists, creating a contradiction.
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Christianity: Religion, Gender and SexualityQuestions
Christianity: Religion, Gender and Sexuality
Female Ordination in the Church of England
  1. When did the Church of England's General Synod vote to allow women to be ordained as priests?
  2. What was the Priests (Ordination of Women) Measure 1993?
  3. When and where were the first women ordained as priests in the Church of England?
  4. What ordained ministry had women in the Church of England been able to exercise before 1994?
  5. What provision did the Act of Synod of 1993 make for those who could not accept women priests?
  6. Which biblical arguments do conservative evangelicals use against the ordination of women?
  7. Why did many Anglo-Catholics oppose women priests?
  8. How did the Roman Catholic Church respond to the question of women priests in 1994?
  9. What biblical arguments are made in favour of ordaining women as priests?
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Christianity: Religion, Gender and SexualityAnswers
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Female Ordination in the Church of England
  1. On 11 November 1992, when the measure won the two-thirds majority it needed in each of the houses of bishops, clergy and laity, only narrowly in the House of Laity.
  2. The Church law that put the 1992 vote into effect, approved by Parliament and given royal assent in November 1993.
  3. On 12 March 1994 at Bristol Cathedral, where 32 women were priested, with Angela Berners-Wilson counted as the first because they were ordained in alphabetical order.
  4. Women had been ordained as deacons since 1987, so many of those priested in 1994 had already served in parishes for years.
  5. It created provincial episcopal visitors, known as 'flying bishops', to give pastoral and sacramental care to parishes that rejected the ordination of women.
  6. 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.
  7. They held that a priest represents Christ at the Eucharist, and that the Church of England had no authority to change the historic ministry without the agreement of the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches.
  8. Pope John Paul II's Ordinatio Sacerdotalis declared that the Church has no authority to ordain women as priests and that this teaching is to be held definitively.
  9. Galatians 3:28 teaches that there is neither male nor female in Christ, Paul greets Junia as outstanding among the apostles in Romans 16:7, and Mary Magdalene was the first witness sent to announce the resurrection.
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Islam: Religion and Religious PluralismQuestions
Islam: Religion and Religious Pluralism
Islam, Migration and Pluralism
  1. From which decade onwards did significant Muslim migration to the United Kingdom begin, contributing to the development of multicultural societies?
  2. What religious presence was established in British society as a result of Muslim migration from the 1950s onwards?
  3. In what ways is the Muslim community in Britain internally diverse?
  4. What is the legal status of freedom of religion under European law?
  5. What is religious pluralism, and what type of state is it characteristic of?
  6. What three contextual factors have influenced the development of Muslim thought in contemporary Europe?
  7. How has living in multicultural, pluralist societies with established human rights frameworks affected Muslim theological development?
  8. Define exclusivism as a position within Islamic theology regarding other religions.
  9. Which Quranic verse provides a basis for exclusivist views in Islam, and what does it state?
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Islam: Religion and Religious PluralismAnswers
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Islam, Migration and Pluralism
  1. From the 1950s onwards.
  2. Islam became a significant religious presence within British multicultural society.
  3. The British Muslim community is diverse in ethnic background, national origin, and Islamic tradition.
  4. Freedom of religion is established as a human right in European law.
  5. Religious pluralism is the coexistence of multiple religions within society; it is a characteristic feature of modern secular states.
  6. Multicultural societies, European human rights law, and religious pluralism.
  7. These contexts have influenced how Muslims engage with questions of religious diversity, coexistence, and the relationship between faith and law.
  8. Exclusivism holds that Islam is the only true path to salvation and that other religions are false or inadequate.
  9. Surah 3:85, which states that whoever seeks a religion other than Islam will not have it accepted and will be among the losers in the Hereafter.
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