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July 2015 - GCSE Religious Studies 5-a-day

Every GCSE Religious Studies sheet published in July 2015, with answers. Beliefs, practices, key terms and the arguments set against them.

Every sheet in July 2015

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

  1. 1st July 2015Which just war criterion is concerned with civilians not being deliberately targeted in a war?
  2. 2nd July 2015Name one reason, other than justice, why religious believers might seek peace.
  3. 3rd July 2015According to a Humanist, outcomes-based view of punishment, what should justify a punishment?
  4. 4th July 2015Complete the quotation: 'what does the LORD require of you? To act justly and ______' (Micah 6:8).
  5. 5th July 2015State one difference between prejudice and discrimination.
  6. 6th July 2015Give one method Martin Luther King used to campaign for civil rights.
  7. 7th July 2015Give the technical term for a theory of atonement that sees Christ's obedience as reversing or 'undoing' Adam's disobedience.
  8. 8th July 2015On which Jewish festival, fifty days after Passover, does Acts 2 record the Holy Spirit coming upon the disciples?
  9. 9th July 2015Name the movement that describes informal, often community-based forms of church, such as 'messy church', designed to reach people outside traditional Sunday services.
  10. 10th July 2015State one thing Christians traditionally do during Lent.
  11. 11th July 2015According to 1 Corinthians 10:16, what does drinking the cup during Communion involve, in Paul's words?
  12. 12th July 2015What role, according to Qur'an 2:30, does Allah tell the angels he is placing Adam on earth to fulfil?
  13. 13th July 2015What are jinn believed to be created from, in contrast to angels?
  14. 14th July 2015Give the term used for these first four Sunni caliphs, meaning 'rightly guided'.
  15. 15th July 2015State one practical effect of many Shia Muslims combining prayers into three periods.
  16. 16th July 2015Which of the two forms of jihad applies to every Muslim, every day, without exception?
  17. 17th July 2015Name the Gospel in which Jesus's teaching on lust and adultery 'in the heart' is found.
  18. 18th July 2015Give one branch of Judaism that ordains women as rabbis.
  19. 19th July 2015What is purgatory, according to Catholic teaching?
  20. 20th July 2015Which denomination of Christianity most commonly teaches belief in purgatory?
  21. 21st July 2015Give the Arabic term for the belief that life is a trust from Allah that must be protected.
  22. 22nd July 2015In which of his works did Aquinas set out the Five Ways?
  23. 23rd July 2015State one reason a faith school might reinforce belief in God more than a non-faith school.
  24. 24th July 2015What is the key difference between a refugee and an internally displaced person?
  25. 25th July 2015State one just war criterion, other than discrimination, that terrorism typically fails to meet.
  26. 26th July 2015Give one type of crime that involves taking someone else's property without permission.
  27. 27th July 2015Give one reason why a community sentence might cause less suffering to an offender's family than a prison sentence.
  28. 28th July 2015Give one example of an absolute right that can never lawfully be restricted.
  29. 29th July 2015State one non-financial cost of poverty that religious charities often highlight.
  30. 30th July 2015Give one word for the Christian belief that God is present and active within creation and human life, as opposed to being distant and uninvolved.
  31. 31st July 2015Give one title the New Testament gives to Jesus that describes his role in achieving salvation.