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