Daily Practice · GCSE Religious Studies

August 1988 5-a-day

Every sheet in August 1988

The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.

  1. 1st August 1988Which German theologian introduced the concept of 'the numinous' in his 1917 book The Idea of the Holy?
  2. 2nd August 1988Which type of evil does the free will defence struggle most to explain?
  3. 3rd August 1988Which just war criterion is concerned with civilians not being deliberately targeted in a war?
  4. 4th August 1988Name one reason, other than justice, why religious believers might seek peace.
  5. 5th August 1988According to a Humanist, outcomes-based view of punishment, what should justify a punishment?
  6. 6th August 1988Complete the quotation: 'what does the LORD require of you? To act justly and ______' (Micah 6:8).
  7. 7th August 1988State one difference between prejudice and discrimination.
  8. 8th August 1988Give one method Martin Luther King used to campaign for civil rights.
  9. 9th August 1988Give the technical term for a theory of atonement that sees Christ's obedience as reversing or 'undoing' Adam's disobedience.
  10. 10th August 1988On which Jewish festival, fifty days after Passover, does Acts 2 record the Holy Spirit coming upon the disciples?
  11. 11th August 1988Name the movement that describes informal, often community-based forms of church, such as 'messy church', designed to reach people outside traditional Sunday services.
  12. 12th August 1988State one thing Christians traditionally do during Lent.
  13. 13th August 1988According to 1 Corinthians 10:16, what does drinking the cup during Communion involve, in Paul's words?
  14. 14th August 1988What role, according to Qur'an 2:30, does Allah tell the angels he is placing Adam on earth to fulfil?
  15. 15th August 1988What are jinn believed to be created from, in contrast to angels?
  16. 16th August 1988Give the term used for these first four Sunni caliphs, meaning 'rightly guided'.
  17. 17th August 1988State one practical effect of many Shia Muslims combining prayers into three periods.
  18. 18th August 1988Which of the two forms of jihad applies to every Muslim, every day, without exception?
  19. 19th August 1988Name the Gospel in which Jesus's teaching on lust and adultery 'in the heart' is found.
  20. 20th August 1988Give one branch of Judaism that ordains women as rabbis.
  21. 21st August 1988What is purgatory, according to Catholic teaching?
  22. 22nd August 1988Which denomination of Christianity most commonly teaches belief in purgatory?
  23. 23rd August 1988Give the Arabic term for the belief that life is a trust from Allah that must be protected.
  24. 24th August 1988In which of his works did Aquinas set out the Five Ways?
  25. 25th August 1988State one reason a faith school might reinforce belief in God more than a non-faith school.
  26. 26th August 1988What is the key difference between a refugee and an internally displaced person?
  27. 27th August 1988State one just war criterion, other than discrimination, that terrorism typically fails to meet.
  28. 28th August 1988Give one type of crime that involves taking someone else's property without permission.
  29. 29th August 1988Give one reason why a community sentence might cause less suffering to an offender's family than a prison sentence.
  30. 30th August 1988Give one example of an absolute right that can never lawfully be restricted.
  31. 31st August 1988State one non-financial cost of poverty that religious charities often highlight.