Daily Practice · GCSE Religious Studies
December 2017 - GCSE Religious Studies 5-a-day
Every GCSE Religious Studies sheet published in December 2017, with answers. Beliefs, practices, key terms and the arguments set against them.
Every sheet in December 2017
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st December 2017Which Christian tradition requires strict fasting from meat and dairy on many days of the year, including Lent?
- 2nd December 2017Give one reason a person might travel abroad in connection with the euthanasia debate.
- 3rd December 2017In which century did Thomas Aquinas write the Five Ways?
- 4th December 2017What is the name of the biblical account, found in John chapter 2, in which Jesus is said to have changed water into wine?
- 5th December 2017Which verse is often used by Christians who see Genesis and the Big Bang theory as compatible?
- 6th December 2017What condition did perpetrators usually have to meet to receive amnesty from the TRC?
- 7th December 2017Give one reason large-scale humanitarian aid after a conflict often needs government, not only individual, involvement.
- 8th December 2017What is restorative justice?
- 9th December 2017Give one argument used by supporters of the death penalty that does not depend on any religious belief.
- 10th December 2017State one limitation of Fair Trade certification as a solution to unfair trade.
- 11th December 2017State one difference between short-term charitable relief and long-term development work.
- 12th December 2017Give the name for the Christian interpretation of Genesis 1 which reads each 'day' as a long period of time rather than a literal 24-hour day.
- 13th December 2017What title does John's Gospel use for Jesus before his human birth, in the phrase 'the Word was with God'?
- 14th December 2017Give one reason a Christian might choose to worship using set, written prayers rather than their own spontaneous words.
- 15th December 2017Give one occasion when a Christian might use intercessory prayer.
- 16th December 2017What is another common name for believers' baptism, reflecting that it requires personal belief first?
- 17th December 2017What does As-Sirat mean?
- 18th December 2017Name one of Allah's Ninety-Nine Names that means 'the Judge'.
- 19th December 2017Give the term for the scholarly explanation and interpretation of the Qur'an's meaning.
- 20th December 2017Give one difference between Zakat al-Fitr and the year-round obligation of Zakah.
- 21st December 2017What does the hadith saying 'Hajj is Arafat' teach about the importance of standing at Arafat?
- 22nd December 2017Name a UK organisation that campaigns for decisions about relationships to be based on personal conscience rather than religious rules.
- 23rd December 2017What is meant by cohabitation?
- 24th December 2017What is meant by creation 'ex nihilo'?
- 25th December 2017Which Act of Parliament sets out the law on abortion in England, Scotland and Wales?
- 26th December 2017What ethical approach do some liberal Protestants use to justify abortion in specific circumstances?
- 27th December 2017Give the difference between strong (positive) atheism and weak (negative) atheism.
- 28th December 2017Which type of vision, in the Augustinian classification, is considered to involve no physical or imagined image at all?
- 29th December 2017What does the principle of discrimination require in war?
- 30th December 2017Suggest one reason a Humanist might oppose weapons of mass destruction without appealing to any religious teaching.
- 31st December 2017According to Qur'an 2:190, what limit is placed on fighting?