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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
Topic overviewKant, Bentham, Virtue Ethics and Christian EthicsAgape, Consequences and Christian CharacterSanctity of Life, Just War and AnimalsEuthanasia, Capital Punishment and Cloning in ChristianityTheft and Truth-TellingMarriage, Homosexuality and Transgender IssuesGenetic Engineering and WealthTolerance and Freedom of Religious ExpressionFree Will, Moral Responsibility and ConscienceCriticisms of Christian EthicsThe Credibility of Christian Moral AuthorityWhat Christianity Has Given Ethical Studies
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
Topic overviewKant, Bentham and Jewish EthicsConsequences, Character and Jewish EthicsThe Mitzvot and Tikkun OlamSanctity of Life, Animals, Theft and LyingCapital Punishment, Euthanasia and Cloning in JudaismMarriage, Sexuality and Genetic EngineeringWealth, Tolerance and Religious Freedom in JudaismBechirah Chofshit: Free Will and ConscienceOther Ethical Traditions and Jewish EthicsWhat Ethical Criticism Means for Torah and Halakha
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: Sources of Wisdom and Authority
- 6 subtopics
- 18 things to know
- Component 2
- Christianity, one faith of five studied in Component 2
What Christianity: Sources of Wisdom and Authority covers
Christianity: the texts, teachers and institutions that carry authority. 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.
- The Bible as the Word of GodRecall questions on what calling the Bible God's word means, on divine inspiration through human authors, and on verbal inspiration.Open →
- Liberal Views, Biblical Criticism and the Bible in WorshipRecall questions on liberal and neo-orthodox views of scripture, the canon and translation, form and redaction criticism and conservative distrust of it, and the Bible in worship including lectio divina.Open →
- The Magisterium and Apostolic SuccessionRecall questions on what Catholics mean by the Magisterium, on apostolic succession and on how scripture and tradition are related.Open →
- Sola Scriptura and the ReformersRecall questions on the principle of scripture alone, Luther's grounds for it, the priesthood of all believers and the case for translation.Open →
- The Authority of JesusRecall questions on Jesus' authority as God's own, the acts taken to show it, and what the Chalcedonian definition states.Open →
- The Sermon on the Mount and RetaliationRecall questions on why the teaching commands respect even without divine claims, and on the law of retaliation and the responses Jesus offers instead.Open →
What you need to know
Answer each one before you reveal it.
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Define verbal inspiration.
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How does the dictation theory differ from verbal inspiration?
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Why do liberal Christians insist the Bible must be read in its cultural context?
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Why is translation an issue for biblical authority?
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What is redaction criticism concerned with?
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Explain what Catholics mean by the Magisterium.
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Why does the Catholic tradition argue that the Church's authority is prior to the Bible's?
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When does Catholic teaching say the pope is preserved from error?
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What authority do Protestants give to scripture, to tradition and to conscience?
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State the principle of sola scriptura.
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How would a Catholic and a Baptist typically go about settling a new moral question such as embryo research?
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How do Christians who regard Jesus as divine, and those who regard him as only human, understand his authority?
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Name two things Jesus does in the gospels that are used to argue he exercised divine authority.
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Give two reasons offered for regarding Jesus as a human teacher rather than divine.
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What was the original purpose of the eye for an eye law?
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Explain the reading of Jesus' sayings on turning the other cheek and going the second mile as non-violent resistance.
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What standard does Jesus set at the close of his Sermon on the Mount teaching on loving enemies?
Take Christianity: Sources of Wisdom and Authority further
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Commonly confused
Pairs that lose marks when they are blurred together.
Canon vs Apocrypha
Canon: the settled list of books a tradition accepts as scripture. Apocrypha: writings of disputed status not accepted by every tradition.
Magisterium vs Sola scriptura
Magisterium: the teaching authority of the Catholic Church. Sola scriptura: the Reformation principle that scripture alone is authoritative.
Propositional revelation vs Non-propositional revelation
Propositional revelation: revelation understood as truths disclosed by God. Non-propositional revelation: revelation understood as God's self-disclosure through events and experience.
Questions from this topic
Each one with the model answer underneath.
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What do Christians mean when they call the Bible the word of God?
Model answer
They mean it carries God's own communication to humanity, so its teaching has authority over Christian belief and conduct.
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Explain the belief that the Bible is inspired by God but written by human beings.
Model answer
God moved and guided the writers, but they wrote in their own languages, styles and historical settings, so the text is divine in origin and human in expression.
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What does 2 Timothy 3:16 claim about scripture, and how is it used in debates about authority?
Model answer
It says all scripture is God-breathed and useful for teaching, and conservative Christians cite it as scripture's own claim to a divine origin.
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Define verbal inspiration.
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The belief that God guided the actual words of scripture and not merely its general ideas.
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How does the dictation theory differ from verbal inspiration?
Model answer
Dictation treats the writers as passive scribes taking down God's exact words, while verbal inspiration allows their own vocabulary and personality to shape wording that God still superintended.
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Define biblical inerrancy.
Model answer
The belief that the Bible contains no errors of any kind, including in history and science, because God cannot deceive.
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Christianity: Sources of Wisdom and Authority revision questions
- What does Christianity: Sources of Wisdom and Authority cover in AQA A-Level Religious Studies?
- 6 subtopics: the bible as the word of god, liberal views, biblical criticism and the bible in worship, the magisterium and apostolic succession, sola scriptura and the reformers, the authority of jesus and the sermon on the mount and retaliation. Each one has its own page with questions and model answers.
- How is Christianity: Sources of Wisdom and Authority organised?
- By the AQA 7062 specification, subtopic by subtopic, so it matches the order you are taught it in.
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