Christianity | Edexcel A-Level Religious Studies (9RS0)

Christianity

194 questions
15 subtopics
Paper 4: the study of one religion of six
Paper 4

One of the six Paper 4 options.

God as personal and creator, the Trinity and the person of Christ, the Bible and the Church as sources of authority, worship and the sacraments, atonement theology, and Christianity's encounter with science, secularisation and religious diversity.

Sample questions from Christianity

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

The 15 subtopics

One subtopic is one session. Work down the list.

Subtopic	What it covers	Questions
God as Personal and as Creator	Recall questions on God as personal, Buber's two kinds of relation and Augustine, omnipotence and immutability, creation from nothing, emanation, construction and artistic expression, stewardship and the goodness of creation, and the challenges to a good Creator.	15
The Trinity	Recall questions on the biblical roots of the Trinity and how the doctrine is defended, relation and perichoresis, the inadequacy of analogies, the filioque dispute, Barth's modes of being and Rahner's rule.	11
The Nature of the Church	Recall questions on the four marks of the Church, unity, holiness, catholicity and apostolicity, Cyprian of Carthage on the Church and salvation, Luther on where the Church is found, and the challenges the marks face today.	10
Love as the Key Christian Moral Principle	Recall questions on agape, the commandment to love God and neighbour, the good Samaritan, and how love functions as a moral norm.	9
The Bible as a Source of Authority	Recall questions on the Bible as the word of God, the formation of the canon and differing Bibles, its use in worship and ethics, tradition alongside scripture, revealed and natural theology, the Spirit, and literalist and historical-critical readings.	11
The Nature and Role of Jesus	Recall questions on Arius and Athanasius, Nicaea and the Chalcedonian definition, Luther on justification and the theology of the cross, Calvin on Christ's threefold office, and Moltmann and Weinandy on whether God suffers.	20
The Eucharist and Its Diversity	Recall questions on transubstantiation, consubstantiation and memorialism, and how practice differs between denominations.	14
Christian Art, Music and Prayer	Recall questions on the use and rejection of images, the place of music, forms of prayer, and how each expresses belief.	11
Christianity and Science	Recall questions on the challenge of modern cosmology, Galileo on scripture and nature, Darwin's challenge, the conflict thesis, young earth creationism and Intelligent Design, theistic evolution, and the lasting impact of these debates.	11
Secularisation	Recall questions on the evidence for and against religious decline, the churches' role today, Hitchens and Dawkins against religion, the McGraths' reply, New Religious Movements, and being spiritual but not religious.	13
New Movements in Theology	Recall questions on Gutiérrez's liberation theology and the preferential option for the poor, structural sin, McFague's feminist models of God, Cone's black theology, Evangelicalism and Pentecostalism, migration and the prosperity gospel.	19
Atonement Theory	Recall questions on atonement and soteriology, the sacrificial model, the victory model and Aulén's account of it, Anselm's satisfaction theory, penal substitution and its critics, and the moral exemplar model.	11
Barth and Hick on Atonement	Recall questions on Barth's Judge judged in our place, God as the subject of atonement and the question of universal salvation, and Hick's metaphorical incarnation, rejection of transactional theories, and implications for other religions.	16
Pluralism and Diversity	Recall questions on plurality and pluralism, particularism, inclusivism and Rahner's anonymous Christians, Hick's pluralism and its critics, alternatives to the threefold classification, and the Ecumenical movement.	13
Equality and Gender in Christianity	Recall questions on biblical grounds for equality, the texts used to limit women's roles, denominational differences, the progress of women's ordination and the arguments for and against it, and its relation to wider equality debates.	10

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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.

Step 1 · Closed book
Cover the answers. Work through one subtopic and write down what you can. Leave blanks where you have nothing.
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.
Step 3 · Closed book again
Same questions, same order, from memory. The gap between pass one and pass three is the session result.

Read the full method, the return schedule and the research behind it.