Edexcel A-Level Religious Studies Paper 4B Study of Christianity overview quiz quiz

They are always sat on the same day at the same time

Paper 4B has completely replaced Paper 3 for every centre

They share a single set anthology of source texts

Their content (New Testament and Christianity) overlaps

one being in three persons (Father, Son and Holy Spirit)

three separate gods who each act independently of the others (tritheism)

one single person who merely appears in three different modes (modalism)

a single undivided person with no distinction of persons within God at all

The Council of Trent and the First Vatican Council, many centuries later

Nicaea (325) and Constantinople (381)

The Councils of Chalcedon and Ephesus only, which addressed the two natures

The Councils of Carthage and Orange, which dealt mainly with grace and sin

Humans are born morally neutral and can freely choose the good without any need at all for grace

There is no inherited sin at all, and each person begins life entirely uncorrupted

The Fall corrupted human nature, binding the will so that grace is necessary for salvation

Grace is merely optional help that strengthens a will already free to choose the good

That the human will is wholly bound by sin and cannot choose the good without grace

That the doctrine of the Trinity is logically incoherent and should be rejected

That Scripture alone is authoritative, above the Church, tradition and the pope

That humans are born neutral and can choose good by free will, with grace as help

Scripture alone is the supreme and sufficient authority

Church tradition outranks the Bible as the final authority

The pope alone interprets Scripture infallibly for the Church

Only the four Gospels, not the rest of the Bible, are authoritative

Two

Seven

Three

Twelve

the bread and wine are only a symbolic memorial of the Last Supper

Christ is present alongside the bread and wine, which remain unchanged

the bread and wine become the body and blood of Christ

nothing changes at all and the rite is purely an act of remembrance

The rapid growth of brand-new religious movements across the country

The complete end of all religion and religious belief in society

Compulsory church membership imposed on the whole of the population

Persisting private faith despite falling institutional attendance

Mary Daly

Rosemary Radford Ruether

Grace Davie

Phyllis Trible

Exclusivism

Inclusivism

Pluralism

Atheism

a theological defence of the existing social and political status quo

a wholesale rejection of the Bible as a source of authority for Christians

God's 'preferential option for the poor' and a call to confront injustice

a purely private, inward spirituality with no concern for social structures

They are permanently at war with each other and science always wins in the end

Religion alone controls and dictates the conclusions that science is permitted to reach

They are identical, asking exactly the same questions and giving the same answers

They are non-overlapping magisteria: science handles facts, religion meaning and morals