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A Study of Religion: Christianity (Units 1 and 3)
Quick questions on Faith, works and moral life in Christianity - WJEC A-Level Religious Studies
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What are key moral principles?Show answer
These principles can pull in different directions in practice. A flexible "love alone" approach (developed philosophically in Fletcher's Situation Ethics) can clash with rule-based appeals to the commandments or natural law, which is the basis of a common evaluation question.
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The Reformation framed faith and works as opposites, but the contrast is easily overstated. Protestants who insist on "sola fide" still expect good works as the inevitable fruit of saving faith, so a faith that produced no love would, for Luther, be no faith at all. Catholics who emphasise works still root them in grace, holding that even the desire to do good is God's gift, so they are not teaching that humans earn heaven by effort.
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What does "sola fide" mean? [2 marks]
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State two key moral principles that guide Christian life. [2 marks]
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Evaluate the view that good works are necessary for salvation. [20 marks]
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