Christianity: Practices and Religious Identity

What Christianity: Practices and Religious Identity covers

Christianity: Practices and Religious Identity is examined in AS Unit 1, An Introduction to the Study of Religion — the Christianity option, studied instead of the other five. It covers diversity in baptism, diversity in the Eucharist, diversity in Christmas and Easter and Evaluating baptism, Eucharist and festivals.

The 4 subtopics

Each one has its own page. WJEC AS Religious Studies students sit this topic in the first year.

• Diversity in baptismRecall questions on Augustine and original sin, Zwingli's older analogy, household passages in Acts, Barth's objection, the place of consent, and the Baptist part in Welsh religious life.Open →
• Diversity in the EucharistDoctrine of transubstantiation and memorialist understanding of the Eucharist.Open →
• Diversity in Christmas and EasterNativity Fast, two characteristic Western Christmas services and two distinctive features of the Orthodox celebration of Pascha.Open →
• Evaluating baptism, Eucharist and festivalsRecall questions on whether it is merely symbolic, readiness and age as criteria, common ground on the Eucharist, denominational practice, and Easter and Christmas East and West.Open →

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Questions from this topic

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1. 1

   Why did St Augustine of Hippo insist that infants be baptised?

   Model answer

   He held that every child inherits the guilt of original sin from Adam, and that baptism is the God-given means by which that guilt is washed away.

2. 2

   Against whom did Augustine develop his argument about original sin?

   Model answer

   Against Pelagius and his followers, who denied inherited sin and held that a person could choose the good without prior grace.

3. 3

   What did Augustine's position imply about a child who died unbaptised?

   Model answer

   On his account such a child could not enter the kingdom, though he argued the penalty would be the lightest of all, and later Catholic teaching has preferred to entrust such children to God's mercy.

4. 4

   How does Huldrych Zwingli's defence of infant baptism differ from Augustine's?

   Model answer

   Zwingli denied that the water itself conveys grace and treated baptism instead as a covenant sign marking a child's place among God's people.

5. 5

   Which older practice did Zwingli compare infant baptism with?

   Model answer

   Circumcision, which was given to the sons of the covenant community on the eighth day, long before any decision of their own.

6. 6

   What part do parents and godparents play at an infant baptism?

   Model answer

   They profess the faith on the child's behalf and undertake to bring the child up within it until the child is able to answer for themselves.

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Christianity: Practices and Religious Identity revision questions

Is Christianity: Practices and Religious Identity examined at AS in WJEC Religious Studies?

Yes. It sits in AS Unit 1, which you take in the first year, so it is on the AS paper as well as counting towards the full A level.

What does Christianity: Practices and Religious Identity cover in WJEC AS-Level Religious Studies?

4 subtopics: diversity in baptism, diversity in the eucharist, diversity in christmas and easter and evaluating baptism, eucharist and festivals. Each one has its own page with questions and model answers.

How is Christianity: Practices and Religious Identity organised?

By the WJEC 603-0277-X specification, subtopic by subtopic, so it matches the order you are taught it in.