AQA A-Level Religious Studies 7062
Arguments for the Existence of God
Evil and Suffering
Religious Language
Self and Life After Death
Religious Experience
Ethical Theories
Issues of Human Life and Death
Meta Ethics
Free Will and Moral Responsibility
Conscience
Bentham and Kant
Issues of Animal Life and Death
Buddhism: Sources of Wisdom and AuthorityBuddhism
Buddhism: Good Conduct and Key Moral PrinciplesBuddhism
Buddhism: Religion, Gender and SexualityBuddhism
Buddhism: Religion and ScienceBuddhism
Buddhism: Religion and SecularisationBuddhism
Buddhism: Religion and Religious PluralismBuddhism
Buddhism: Dialogue with PhilosophyBuddhism
Buddhism: Dialogue with EthicsBuddhism
Buddhism: God and Ultimate RealityBuddhism
Buddhism: Self, Death and the AfterlifeBuddhism
Buddhism: Expression of Religious IdentityBuddhism
Christianity: God and Ultimate RealityChristianity
Christianity: Self, Death and the AfterlifeChristianity
Christianity: Good Conduct and Key Moral PrinciplesChristianity
Christianity: Religion, Gender and SexualityChristianity
Christianity: Religion and ScienceChristianity
Christianity: Religion and SecularisationChristianity
Christianity: Religion and Religious PluralismChristianity
Christianity: Dialogue with PhilosophyChristianity
Christianity: Dialogue with EthicsChristianity
Christianity: Sources of Wisdom and AuthorityChristianity
Christianity: Expression of Religious IdentityChristianity
Hinduism: Sources of Wisdom and AuthorityHinduism
Hinduism: Good Conduct and Key Moral PrinciplesHinduism
Hinduism: Religion, Gender and SexualityHinduism
Hinduism: Religion and ScienceHinduism
Hinduism: Religion and SecularisationHinduism
Hinduism: Religion and Religious PluralismHinduism
Hinduism: Dialogue with PhilosophyHinduism
Hinduism: Dialogue with EthicsHinduism
Hinduism: God and Ultimate RealityHinduism
Hinduism: Self, Death and the AfterlifeHinduism
Hinduism: Expression of Religious IdentityHinduism
Islam: God and Ultimate RealityIslam
Islam: Good Conduct and Key Moral PrinciplesIslam
Islam: Religion, Gender and SexualityIslam
Islam: Religion and ScienceIslam
Islam: Religion and SecularisationIslam
Islam: Religion and Religious PluralismIslam
Islam: Dialogue with PhilosophyIslam
Islam: Dialogue with EthicsIslam
Islam: Sources of Wisdom and AuthorityIslam
Islam: Self, Death and the AfterlifeIslam
Islam: Expression of Religious IdentityIslam
Judaism: God and Ultimate RealityJudaism
Judaism: Dialogue with PhilosophyJudaism
Judaism: Religion and ScienceJudaism
Judaism: Religion and SecularisationJudaism
Judaism: Religion and Religious PluralismJudaism
Judaism: Dialogue with EthicsJudaism
Judaism: Religion, Gender and SexualityJudaism
Judaism: Expression of Religious IdentityJudaism
Judaism: Sources of Wisdom and AuthorityJudaism
Judaism: Self, Death and the AfterlifeJudaism
Judaism: Good Conduct and Key Moral PrinciplesJudaism
Christianity: Self, Death and the Afterlife
- 6 subtopics
- 18 things to know
- Component 2
- Christianity, one faith of five studied in Component 2
What Christianity: Self, Death and the Afterlife covers
Christianity: the self, the purpose of life, and what is held to follow death. Part of Component 2, sat only by students who take Christianity as their chosen religion.
Where it is assessed
Component 2
Christianity, one faith of five — the study of religion.
Check the AQA specification ↗The 6 subtopics
Each one has its own page.
- Glorifying God and Being Born AgainRecall questions on the chief end of human beings, how God is glorified in daily life and what evangelicals mean by new birth.Open →
- The Kingdom of God and EschatologyRecall questions on what the kingdom of God means, the prayer expressing it and the difference between realised and inaugurated eschatology.Open →
- The Soul, Nephesh and Bodily ResurrectionRecall questions on the soul, substance dualism, Plato and the Hebrew nephesh, Aquinas and materialism, and Augustine's account of the resurrection of the flesh and the risen body.Open →
- Spiritual Resurrection and 1 Corinthians 15Recall questions on spiritual resurrection, the contrasts Paul draws between the body buried and raised, and the difficulty flesh and blood creates.Open →
- Judgement, the Parousia and Heaven and HellRecall questions on particular and last judgement, the meaning of parousia and the physical and spiritual understandings of each.Open →
- Purgatory and Objective ImmortalityRecall questions on the Catholic doctrine of purgatory, its scriptural support, the Protestant rejection and modern presentations, and on objective immortality, the consequent nature of God and Hartshorne.Open →
What you need to know
Answer each one before you reveal it.
What do evangelical Christians mean by a personal relationship with God?
What did Augustine mean by saying the human heart is restless until it rests in God?
What is meant by the kingdom of God?
How does liberation theology understand the purpose of Christian life?
What is the criticism that Christianity offers pie in the sky?
What is meant by the soul in Christian thought?
How did Aquinas describe the relationship between soul and body?
Which creed affirms belief in the resurrection of the body?
How does Paul describe the resurrection body in 1 Corinthians 15?
What does Paul say in 1 Corinthians 15:50 about flesh and blood?
Why does Paul call Christ the first fruits?
What pictures and understandings of heaven does Christianity offer?
Distinguish particular judgement from the last judgement.
Explain hell understood as eternal conscious punishment.
How is purgatory increasingly presented in modern Catholic thought?
What is meant by objective immortality in process thought?
Explain what process thought means by the consequent nature of God.
Take Christianity: Self, Death and the Afterlife further
The same content, four other ways.
Questions from this topic
Each one with the model answer underneath.
- 1
According to the Westminster Shorter Catechism, what is the chief end of human beings?
Model answer
To glorify God and to enjoy him for ever.
- 2
Name three ways a Christian might glorify God in ordinary daily life.
Model answer
Through worship and prayer, through honest and loving conduct, and through using their talents in the service of others.
- 3
What do evangelical Christians mean by a personal relationship with God?
Model answer
A conscious individual friendship with God through Christ, sustained by prayer, scripture and the work of the Holy Spirit.
- 4
What is meant by being born again?
Model answer
A spiritual rebirth in which a person turns to Christ in faith and receives new life from the Spirit.
- 5
What did Augustine mean by saying the human heart is restless until it rests in God?
Model answer
Human beings are made for God, so no created thing can finally satisfy them.
- 6
Explain the belief that this life is a preparation for judgement.
Model answer
Christians hold they will answer to God for how they have lived, so the present life is the time for repentance, faith and faithful conduct.
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Christianity: Self, Death and the Afterlife revision questions
- What does Christianity: Self, Death and the Afterlife cover in AQA A-Level Religious Studies?
- 6 subtopics: glorifying god and being born again, the kingdom of god and eschatology, the soul, nephesh and bodily resurrection, spiritual resurrection and 1 corinthians 15, judgement, the parousia and heaven and hell and purgatory and objective immortality. Each one has its own page with questions and model answers.
- How is Christianity: Self, Death and the Afterlife organised?
- By the AQA 7062 specification, subtopic by subtopic, so it matches the order you are taught it in.
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