Eduqas A-Level Religious Studies Component 1 Christianity, Developments and Practices overview quiz quiz

It made Christianity the official religion of the empire

It banned Christian worship

It abolished the papacy

It granted toleration and restored confiscated property

Theodosius I

Constantine the Great

Nero

Diocletian

They are simply two interchangeable words for exactly the same thing

Secularisation is a social process of religious decline; secularism is the ideology that religion should be excluded from public life

Secularisation is the political ideology of keeping religion out of the state, while secularism is the gradual social process by which belief declines

Both terms refer only and exclusively to organised atheism

Quietly adapting all of the church's teaching to fit comfortably with modern secular values

Withdrawing entirely from mainstream society into closed communities

Actively seeking to win a secular culture back through mission and apologetics

Abandoning belief in God altogether

Karl Barth

Rudolf Bultmann

Saint Thomas Aquinas

Gustavo Gutierrez

The claim that God takes the side of the poor and oppressed

The claim that the poor should simply be ignored by the church entirely

A government tax policy on incomes

The view that all wealth is always sinful and should be renounced

For completely ignoring the plight of the poor and the urgent demands of social justice altogether

For borrowing from atheist, materialist Marxism and risking the reduction of salvation to politics

For being far too charitable and generous towards the rich

For openly rejecting the authority of the Bible

Infant baptism is always carried out using consecrated oil, whereas believers' baptism is carried out using ordinary water in a font or pool

Believers' baptism is reserved strictly for babies only

Infant baptism baptises babies (stressing prior grace); believers' baptism baptises only those who can profess faith for themselves

There is no real difference between the two practices

The bread and wine remain only symbols

Christ is truly present in, with and under the bread and wine, which themselves remain genuine bread and wine

Christ is received only spiritually by faith

The substance of the bread and wine becomes Christ's body and blood while the appearances remain

Memorialism (the Eucharist as a symbolic remembrance)

Transubstantiation (the substance of the bread and wine wholly changing into Christ)

Consubstantiation (Christ present alongside the bread)

Papal infallibility in matters of doctrine

Wealth is intrinsically evil and must be destroyed

Wealth is held in trust from God, to be used generously for the common good

Wealth is a clear sign of God's special favour and so may rightly be kept for oneself

Christians may not own anything

"An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth" (Exodus 21:24)

"Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's" (Mark 12:17)

"You shall love the alien as yourself, for you were aliens in Egypt" (Leviticus 19:34)

"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God" (John 1:1)

"For the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil, and in their eagerness some have wandered from the faith" (1 Timothy 6:10)

"This is my body, which is given for you; do this in remembrance of me" (Luke 22:19)

"In this sign you shall conquer"

"There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus" (Galatians 3:28)

Because religion is stable or growing globally, new movements arise, and immigration sustains religious communities

Because every kind of religion has already completely disappeared without trace from the whole of the entire modern world

Because no reliable data of any kind exist on church attendance anywhere

Because secularism was officially banned by law

Holding strictly correct belief about official church doctrine and the historic creeds

The claim that right action for justice comes before, and tests, right doctrine

A particular traditional type of sung church music

The outright rejection of the authority of the Bible