OCR A-Level Religious Studies Component 03 Developments in Christian Thought overview quiz quiz

The state of perfect harmony enjoyed by humanity before the Fall

God's freely given grace that restores the will after baptism

The disordered desire that is the lasting wound of the Fall

The highest good towards which the restless heart is drawn

Pleasure

Human virtue

The state

God

All people will finally be saved

God sovereignly chooses only some particular people for salvation

Christ's atoning death was offered only for the Church

Salvation is earned and depends on doing good works alone

Whether they held the correct doctrines and creedal beliefs

How they treated the needy ('whatever you did for the least of these')

How regularly and faithfully they attended church services and public worship

The amount of wealth and property they had accumulated

A demonstrative proof of God drawn from the design of the world

The revealed saving knowledge of God given to us solely in Jesus Christ

An innate, universal sense of the divine implanted in every person

Barth's outright rejection of all forms of natural theology

Because the design argument has been shown to be logically invalid

Because scripture is historically unreliable and therefore cannot be trusted as a source of knowledge

Because God does not in fact exist and so cannot be known at all

Because sin so corrupts human reason that natural theology produces a human projection or idol

Teacher of wisdom, liberator, Son of God

Prophet, priest and anointed messianic king

Father, Son and Holy Spirit of the Trinity

Creator, redeemer and final judge of all

Heteronomous ethics is the Catholic approach while autonomous ethics is the distinctively Protestant approach

Heteronomous derives morality from external authority; autonomous takes personal responsibility guided by conscience, reason and love

Heteronomous ethics rejects the authority of the Bible whereas autonomous ethics accepts the Bible as binding

They are simply two different names for one and the very same single theory, namely Joseph Fletcher's well-known theory of situation ethics

Forgiveness offered freely with no need for any repentance at all

Grace that must be earned by performing enough meritorious good works

Grace that calls a person to follow Christ at the price of their life

Grace made available only to the ordained clergy of the Church

Baptised Christians who deliberately keep their faith hidden and secret

People who consciously reject all religion and every form of belief

Members of the persecuted underground early Church living before the reign of Constantine

Sincere people of other faiths saved by Christ without explicitly knowing him

The world religions are equally valid responses to the same ultimate Real

Only Christianity offers a genuine and true path to human salvation

All religions alike are merely illusions with no real object at all

Salvation depends entirely upon formal membership of the one visible Church alone

Christianity can be reformed from within by recovering its own liberating prophetic principle

Christianity is irredeemably patriarchal, so she moves to a post-Christian position

Patriarchy is not really present within Christianity and never has been

Traditional male God-language ought to be retained without change

As a rationally proven and thoroughly well-established scientific truth about the nature of reality

As an outworking of the liberating prophetic principle within the tradition

As an illusion: a belief held because it is wished for, projecting a protective father

As an expression of God's preferential option for the poor and oppressed

They are simply the same thing described using two interchangeable words

Secularism is itself fundamentally a religious stance whereas secularisation is by definition a strictly atheist political programme imposed by the state

Secularism is a strictly modern movement whereas secularisation is an ancient one

Secularism is the principle of separating religion from public life; secularisation is the social decline of religious belief and influence

Injustice built into social, economic and political structures

The private personal sins committed by separate individuals

The traditional Augustinian doctrine of inherited original sin from Adam

Karl Marx's materialist atheism and critique of religion

That the poor are spiritually more sinful than the rich and powerful

That God takes the side of the poor and oppressed, so the Church must too

That material wealth is a visible outward sign of divine election to salvation

That the Church should avoid all political involvement entirely