Daily Practice · GCSE Religious Studies
February 2009 - GCSE Religious Studies 5-a-day
Every GCSE Religious Studies sheet published in February 2009, with answers. Beliefs, practices, key terms and the arguments set against them.
Every sheet in February 2009
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st February 2009According to the free will defence, who is responsible for moral evil?
- 2nd February 2009Name the secular philosopher who developed a rights-based, non-religious version of just war theory.
- 3rd February 2009What does the Arabic term 'adl' mean?
- 4th February 2009What is the difference between individual deterrence and general deterrence?
- 5th February 2009Give one argument in favour of corporal punishment that focuses on deterring future crime, rather than on retribution.
- 6th February 2009Give one example of indirect discrimination.
- 7th February 2009State one reason religious groups might find it hard to promote racial harmony.
- 8th February 2009Give the technical term for a theory of atonement that sees Christ's obedience as reversing or 'undoing' Adam's disobedience.
- 9th February 2009Which apostle preached the first recorded Christian sermon, on the day of Pentecost?
- 10th February 2009State one feature of worship in a house church.
- 11th February 2009Name the Christian festival that celebrates the coming of the Holy Spirit to the disciples, 50 days after Easter.
- 12th February 2009According to 1 Corinthians 10:16, what does drinking the cup during Communion involve, in Paul's words?
- 13th February 2009Give one reason Ibrahim's role as 'an imam (leader) for the people' (Qur'an 2:124) is significant for Shi'a belief.
- 14th February 2009Give one Arabic term for angels.
- 15th February 2009Name the Umayyad caliph whose forces were responsible for the death of Husayn at Karbala.
- 16th February 2009Which month does Ashura fall in?
- 17th February 2009Besides armed struggle and inner spiritual struggle, name one other way jihad can be expressed according to broader Islamic teaching.
- 18th February 2009Give one reason, other than religious teaching, why unmarried cohabiting couples have historically had fewer legal protections than married couples.
- 19th February 2009According to 1 Corinthians 11:11-12, in what direction does dependence between men and women run?
- 20th February 2009Give one practice associated with Catholic belief in purgatory that most Protestant churches do not follow.
- 21st February 2009According to the Qur'an (99:7-8), what happens to even the smallest good or bad deed a person does?
- 22nd February 2009Which two branches of Islam does this topic compare when looking at attitudes to euthanasia?
- 23rd February 2009Which two philosophers are most associated with the objection that the universe as a whole may not need a cause, even though things within it do?
- 24th February 2009Give one reason some people argue that faith imposed during upbringing is not the same as freely chosen, personal belief.
- 25th February 2009Name the migration of the Prophet Muhammad and his early followers from Makkah to Madinah to escape persecution.
- 26th February 2009Name the idea, based on a well-known hadith, used to show that the internal struggle against one's own faults is considered greater than armed struggle.
- 27th February 2009State one reason it can help a court to understand what has contributed to a person's offending before deciding a sentence.
- 28th February 2009Besides the victim and the offender, name one other group who can be affected by suffering linked to a crime and its punishment.