Pearson Edexcel International GCSE in Religious Studies · 4RS1 · Free · no account needed

Christianity

35 units, completely free. Paper 1 examines beliefs and values from the Christian perspective (with the non-religious view throughout); Paper 2 (4RS1/2B, “Paper 2B: Christianity”) examines the religion itself. A centre enters this route as 4RS1B.

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Paper 1 · Section 1 — The universe, creation and the place of human beings

1.1 · The universe and the place of human beings — If God made everything then nothing is ownerless, so how a Christian treats the world is a question about a trust rather than about…
1.2 · Human nature and the human condition — Christianity hopes for a person raised rather than a soul released, which is why what it says about a body matters as much as what it says…
1.3 · Selfishness, greed, ignorance and sin — Christianity says wrongdoing is a condition and not only a choice, which is why it offers forgiveness where a tradition of ignorance would…
1.4 · Free will, determinism and predestination — Christianity refuses to choose between a God who knows everything and a person who is genuinely responsible…
1.5 · Ultimate reality — The Trinity is what Christianity was left with after refusing to drop any of three claims it already held, which is why explaining it is…
1.6 · Belief, uncertainty and unbelief — Christianity's own account of belief is that it arrives through formation and encounter rather than through argument…
1.7 · The problem of evil and suffering — The problem exists only because Christianity insists on all three things at once, and its most distinctive answer does not explain the…

Paper 1 · Section 2 — Life and death

2.1 · Death and life after death — Christianity hopes for one life, then a person raised whole and judged on what they did — which is a different claim from a soul going…
2.2 · The meaning and purpose of life — Christianity says a life is for a relationship that is given rather than earned, and it has never settled how much of the receiving…
2.3 · Sanctity of life, abortion and euthanasia — Christianity holds that a life's value does not depend on its condition and that suffering must be relieved…
2.4 · Human relationships — Both sides of the Christian argument reason from love and from scripture, and what they actually disagree about is whether the purposes of…
2.5 · Marriage and partnership — Christian marriage is a promise made in advance to survive things going badly, and whether God is a party to it or a witness to it decides…
2.6 · Divorce and remarriage — If God joined the couple then only God's absence at the wedding can be examined, which is why annulment looks backwards and is not divorce…
2.7 · Family structures and responsibilities — Faith here is learned by living rather than by instruction, which is why the household is treated as a church and why what a parish…
2.8 · Childlessness and celibacy — Christianity treats children as a good rather than a duty, which is the only way a tradition with monks and nuns in it can also honour a…

Paper 1 · Section 3 — Peace and conflict

3.1 · Conflict and war — Christianity holds a sermon against violence and a duty to protect the innocent at the same time, and Just War theory is the attempt to…
3.2 · Peace, reconciliation and forgiveness — Christian forgiveness is what somebody passes on rather than what they feel, which is why the daily prayer makes receiving it depend on…
3.3 · Bullying — The Christian objection to bullying is grounded in something that has nothing to do with whether the victim is likeable…
3.4 · Sin and crime — A crime is an offence against a society's law and a sin is an offence against God, and everything interesting about Christian teaching…
3.5 · Punishment — Christianity holds justice and mercy together and refuses to reduce punishment to one aim, so the work in this unit is ranking five aims…
3.6 · Capital punishment — One verse makes the image of God the reason for executing a murderer, and the modern Christian case keeps that premise and turns the…

Paper 1 · Section 4 — Rights, equality and social justice

4.1 · Human rights — Christianity grounds rights in something no assembly granted, which makes them unrepealable and makes them unavailable as an argument to…
4.2 · Equal rights and equal opportunities — Every Christian tradition holds equal dignity and they divide over equal role, and the specification is asking how far either has actually…
4.3 · The multi-ethnic society and racial harmony — Christianity's teaching against racism is direct and its record is mixed, and the strongest answers are the ones that put the failure in…
4.4 · The multi-faith society and interfaith relationships — Christianity holds a universal claim and a refusal to coerce at the same time, and the position most answers leave out is the one that…
4.5 · Relationships between rich and poor — Christianity makes treatment of the poor the test at judgement and demands justice as well as relief, so the argument is about where the…

Paper 2 · Section 1 — Origins and their impact on the community: founders, texts and other sources of authority

1.1 · Jesus: the incarnate Son of God — The episodes are evidence for a claim about who Jesus is, and if that claim is true then the cross is God suffering rather than a good man…
1.2 · The Bible and its authority — A library in several genres cannot be read without a decision about how, and the traditions are disagreeing about who is entitled to make…
1.3 · Leadership in the Church — Every tradition agrees leadership is service and they disagree about whether the ministry is a distinct order or a recognised function…
1.4 · One other significant Christian — The question is what somebody added and whether it still works, and the best answer is the one whose figure does work on four other units…

Paper 2 · Section 2 — Celebration and pilgrimage

2.1 · Christmas and Easter — Christmas and Easter are two halves of one claim, and the amount of the year spent preparing for each tells you which the tradition thinks…
2.2 · Pilgrimage in Christianity — Christianity requires no journey and keeps making them anyway, because it holds both that God is everywhere and that he was once in one…

Paper 2 · Section 3 — Worship and practice

3.1 · Churches: design and features — You can read a congregation's doctrine off its furniture, which is why traditions moved the furniture when the doctrine moved.
3.2 · Christian worship, prayer and the Eucharist — The disagreement about how Christians worship is the disagreement about what happens in the Eucharist, and the buildings and the ministry…
3.3 · Rites of passage in Christian life — The argument about baptism is about what the water does rather than about who receives it, and confirmation exists in the traditions whose…

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