GCSE RS Unit 3.3 - Knowledge and Description Questions (5 marks)

Question 1

What is the greatest commandment?

Answer 1

In Mark 12:28-32 Jesus responds:
‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’

Question 2

What is the new commandment given by Jesus?

Answer 2

‘love one another’

Question 3

What kind of love is eros?

Answer 3

Dr Martin Luther King: ‘Eros is a sort of romantic love’

Question 4

What kind of love is philosophy?

Answer 4

Dr Martin Luther King: ‘a kind of intimate love between friends’

Question 5

What kind of love is agape?

Answer 5

Dr Martin Luther King ‘Agape is understanding, creating, redemptive goodwill to all people. Agape is an overflowing love that seeks nothing in return. Theologians would say that it is the love of God operating in the human heart.’

Question 6

Describe what is meant by the Golden Rule.

Answer 6

Matthew 7:12, Jesus says: ‘Treat others as you would like them to treat you.’

This is found in all religions and in non-religious humanist belief.

Question 7

What is meant by telos?

Answer 7

Goal

Question 8

Who was the key figure with regard to Situation Ethics?

Answer 8

Joseph Fletcher (1905-1991)

Question 9

What is meant by ‘a deontological approach’?

Answer 9

That a law, rule or command is given by God and the only required response is obedience to God’s command

Question 10

Who was the key figure with regard to Natural Law?

Answer 10

St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274)

Question 11

What is meant by the word ‘eudaimonia’?

Answer 11

human flourishing

Question 12

Describe what is meant by Natural Law.

Answer 12

Human reason, which is given to us by God, shows that all things are created with a purpose, which has to be fulfilled in order for life to achieve eudaimonia or flourishing.

Question 13

Why is the family the primary socialisation agency of society?

Answer 13

As it is within the family that a person first learns how to relate to other people

Question 14

What is meant by a nuclear family?

Answer 14

a couple and their dependent children, regarded as a basic social unit

Question 15

What is a re-constituted family?

Answer 15

Two sets of children (step-brothers and step-sisters) become one family when their divorced parents marry each other.

Question 16

What is meant by cohabitation?

Answer 16

Living together without being married

Question 17

What must a civil marriage ceremony not contain?

Answer 17

religious content

Question 18

Describe briefly what take place in a civil marriage ceremony.

Answer 18

• Legal declaratory words
• Legal contracting words
• Sample of civil ceremony vows

Question 19

Which commandment is found in Exodus 20:12?

Answer 19

‘Honour your father and your mother.’

Question 20

Which parable of Jesus refers to family life?

Answer 20

the Parable of the Prodigal Son

Question 21

Which Pope called the family ‘a school of deeper humanity’?

Answer 21

Pope John Paul II (1920-2005)

Question 22

In Genesis 2:18-22, what was Eve created from?

Answer 22

man’s rib

Question 23

Describe why some Christians believe that woman is subordinate to man.

Answer 23

As she was created from Adam’s rib and the passage suggests that the role of woman is to be ‘a helper’.

Question 24

What are vows?

Answer 24

Marriage vows are promises each partner in a couple makes to the other during a wedding ceremony.

Question 25

What do the rings exchanged in a marriage ceremony symbolize?

Answer 25

It is a symbol for their eternal love of each other

Question 26

What is the significance of the bride’s father placing her hand in the hand of the groom?

Answer 26

It shows the bride leaving their own family to start another family

Question 27

Which vow shows that marriage is meant to be a life-long commitment?

Answer 27

‘till death do us part’ - vow which shows faithfulness

Question 28

What is the Synod of the Church of England?

Answer 28

the ruling body of the Church of England

Question 29

Describe briefly what happens in a Christian marriage ceremony

Answer 29

• Bride’s father places her hand in hand of groom
• Bible readings/prayer/ exchange of vows
• Exchange of rings and vows to be faithful

Question 30

What is meant by adultery?

Answer 30

a sexual act between a married person and someone other than their marriage partner

Question 31

What percentages of marriages in the UK end in divorce?

Answer 31

42%

Question 32

What is the Matthean Exception?

Answer 32

that if the divorce has been the result of adultery, then re-marriage is acceptable

Question 33

What type of Protestants are Quakers?

Answer 33

Liberal Protestants

Question 34

What is meant by an annulment?

Answer 34

Annulment is when the Roman Catholic Church agrees that the marriage was never a true marriage in the first place.

Question 35

Describe the reasons for which a marriage can be annulled

Answer 35

A marriage can be annulled if any of the following can be proved:

1) A lack of consent
2) A lack of judgement
3) An inability to carry out the duties of marriage
4) A lack of intention

Question 36

What is meant by imago Dei?

Answer 36

‘image of God’, but is often given the Latin phrase ‘imago Dei’

Question 37

What is the difference between pre-marital sex and adultery?

Answer 37

Pre-marital sex is having sex outside of marriage with your partner
Adultery is having sex with someone that is married

Question 38

What is meant by mutual consent with reference to sexual acts?

Answer 38

When both members agree to having sex

Question 39

Why does Roman Catholic teaching rule out pre-marital sex?

Answer 39

As sexual act involves total life-long and exclusive commitment between a man and a woman, which is only possible within marriage. Obviously, if a couple has pre-marital sex, they are outside of marriage and cannot accomplish life-long and exclusive commitment.

Question 40

Which one of the Five Precepts does marriage help achieve?

Answer 40

Order Society

Question 41

Describe Liberal Protestant attitudes towards pre-marital sex

Answer 41

Liberal Protestants in general might argue that in the modern world sex before marriage is acceptable if the couple love each other and are in a long term relationship which might be a trial marriage resulting in a Christian marriage ceremony.

Some Liberal Protestants would go even further by focusing on the importance of people using their free will and following their conscience.

Question 42

What is ‘Human Vitae’?

Answer 42

It is a book written by Pope Paul VI, which explained Roman Catholic teachings

Question 43

Give examples of artificial contraception

Answer 43

• a condom
• contraceptive pills
• injection for birth control

Question 44

What, according to Roman Catholic teaching, does sexual intercourse in marriage have to be?

Answer 44

Sexual intercourse in marriage is an act which has to be both:
Unitive - It unites the couple as one in love
Procreative - It enables the couple to procreate and have children

Question 45

What is the Rhythm Method?

Answer 45

a couple might have sexual intercourse only during the time of the month when the woman would have her natural infertile cycle

Question 46

What command did God give to Adam and Eve in Genesis 9:7?

Answer 46

“As for you, be fruitful and increase in number; multiply on the earth and increase upon it.”

Question 47

Describe the approach taken by Liberal Protestants towards artificial contraception

Answer 47

Liberal Protestants do not believe in Natural Law. They believe that sexual intercourse does not always have to be Procreative. Therefore, the use of an artificial contraception is acceptable for couples as they are using their conscience and free will to make decisions about limiting the number of children they might want to have.

Question 48

What word does Leviticus use to describe homosexual sex?

Answer 48

‘an abomination’

Question 49

Which city - connected with homosexual sex - is destroyed by God in Genesis?

Answer 49

the city of Sodom

Question 50

What does David say about his love for Jonathon?

Answer 50

‘Your love for me was wonderful, more wonderful than that of women.’

Question 51

What is the name of the openly gay Bishop chosen by Episcopalian Church in 2003?

Answer 51

Bishop Gene Robinson

Question 52

What is Catechism?

Answer 52

collection of teachings

Question 53

Describe the approach taken by Liberal Protestants towards homosexuality.

Answer 53

Liberal Protestants argue that the Old Testament passages reflect the beliefs of that time only and have no relevance at all subsequently.

The destruction of Sodom is seen as a story describing the wickedness not of homosexual sex but of attempted homosexual rape in which a person’s guests were in danger of being abused

Question 54

What was the name of the person Jesus first revealed himself to after the resurrection?

Answer 54

Mary Magdalene

Question 55

Where in the world is the Orthodox Church mainly found?

Answer 55

Russia, Greece and Egypt

Question 56

What is meant by ‘Holy Tradition’?

Answer 56

the rules and customs that people followed in the times of Christ

Question 57

What does ‘in persona Christi’ mean?

Answer 57

If a priest is ‘in persona Christ’, this means that the priest represents and stands for the person of Christ when he is taking services.

Question 58

What is the name of the first woman Bishop in the Church of England?

Answer 58

Libby Lane

Question 59

Describe the approach taken by the Roman Catholic Church towards the ordination of women.

Answer 59

the Roman Catholic Church does not believe that woman should be allowed to be priests because Jesus only chose his apostles from men and that the constant practice and tradition of the Church had been to exclude women from the priesthood.