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A Study of Religion: Christianity (Units 1 and 3)
Quick questions on Jesus and the Bible: figures and sacred texts in Christianity - WJEC A-Level Religious Studies
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What is the significance of Jesus?Show answer
Jesus as teacher. Jesus taught with authority through parables, the Sermon on the Mount (including the Beatitudes), and commands such as the call to love God and neighbour and to love one's enemies. His ethical teaching on forgiveness, humility and care for the marginalised shapes Christian morality. Some, especially in liberal traditions, stress this teaching role above metaphysical claims about his nature.
What is jesus as teacher?Show answer
Jesus taught with authority through parables, the Sermon on the Mount (including the Beatitudes), and commands such as the call to love God and neighbour and to love one's enemies. His ethical teaching on forgiveness, humility and care for the marginalised shapes Christian morality. Some, especially in liberal traditions, stress this teaching role above metaphysical claims about his nature.
What is jesus as Son of God?Show answer
The title "Son of God" expresses divine status. The doctrine of the incarnation holds that in Jesus, God became human (John 1, "the Word became flesh and dwelt among us"). The Nicene Creed defines him as "true God from true God ...
What is jesus as liberator?Show answer
Liberation theology (developed in Latin America by figures such as Gustavo Gutierrez) reads Jesus as one who proclaimed good news to the poor (Luke 4) and challenged unjust structures. On this reading, Jesus is a liberator who calls Christians to a "preferential option for the poor" and to political as well as spiritual freedom.
What is model paragraph?Show answer
The Bible is universally central to Christianity, but its precise authority is not uniform. For conservative Protestants the principle of "sola scriptura" makes scripture the supreme and sufficient authority, judging all tradition. Catholic and Orthodox Christianity, by contrast, hold that scripture is itself a product of the Church and is rightly interpreted within the living tradition guided by the magisterium, so scripture and tradition function together.
What is q1?Show answer
Name three ways Christians understand the significance of Jesus. [3 marks]
What is q2?Show answer
What is meant by saying the Bible is a source of authority? [2 marks]
What is q3?Show answer
Evaluate the claim that Christians must read the Bible literally to take it seriously. [20 marks]