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Religion and Life: Christianity
Victor Watton, Diane Kolka

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RRP: £11.99
ISBN: 9780340888919
ISBN-10: 0340888911

Published: 30/06/2005
Extent: 120 pages

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Summary:
Endorsed by Edexcel, Religion and Life: Christianity is a brand new book written to cover Unit B of the Edexcel GCSE Religious Studies Specification A. In line with the most current specification, it provides a contemporary view on the Christian perspective of life today. Exam questions, tips and annotated answers help students to get to grips with the exam requirements and thoroughly prepare them for the Short Course.

  • Written to exactly match Unit B on Edexcel GCSE Specification A Written by the Chief and Principal Examiner
  • Endorsed by Edexcel.

     

Table of Contents:
BELIEVING IN GOD
1.1 How religious upbringing in a Christian family can lead to or support belief in God
1.2 How religious experience can lead to or support belief in God
1.3 How design can lead to or support belief in God
1.4 How causation can lead to or support belief in God
1.5 The nature of religious experience for Christians
1.6 How the search for meaning and purpose can lead to or support belief in God
1.7 How the presence of religion can lead to or support belief in God
1.8 How unanswered prayers and the existence of evil and suffering can
lead people to question or reject belief in God.
1.9 How non-religious explanations of the world or miracles may lead to or support agnosticism or atheism
1.10 Why the existence of evil and suffering causes problems for people who believe in God
1.11 How Christians respond to this problem
MATTERS OF LIFE AND DEATH
2.1 Differences among Christians in their attitudes to life after death
(resurrection and immortality)
2.2 Differences among Christians in their attitudes to life after death

2.3 Why Christians believe in life after death
2.4 Reasons for belief in life after death not specific to any religion
2.5 Why some people do not believe in life after death

2.7 The nature of abortion (British law and non-religious arguments)2.8 Different Christian attitudes to abortion


2.11 The nature of euthanasia (British law and non-religious arguments)
2.12 Different Christian attitudes to euthanasia
MARRIAGE AND FAMILY LIFE
3.1 Changing attitudes to cohabitation and marriage in the UK
3.2 The purposes of marriage in Christianity
3.3 Different Christian attitudes to sex outside marriage and reasons for them
3.4 The main features of a Christian marriage ceremony
3.5 Changing attitudes to divorce in the UK
3.6 Different attitudes in Christianity to divorce and the reasons for them

3.8 Different Christian attitudes to homosexuality and the reasons for them
3.9 The changing nature of family life in the UK
3.10 The Christian teachings on family life and its importance
3.11 How churches help with the upbringing of children and keeping the
family together
SOCIAL HARMONY
4.1 The growth of equal rights for women in the UK
4.2 Different Christian attitudes to the roles of men and women including the reasons for them
4.3 Biblical teachings on the roles of men and women including the

4.4 Different Christian attitudes to the role of women in ministry
4.5 The nature of the UK as a multi-ethnic society including prejudice,
discrimination and racism
4.6 Christian teachings which help to promote racial harmony.
4.7 The contribution of one modern Christian person or organisation to

4.8 The quality, variety and richness of life in the UK as a multi-faith society
4.9 Considerations of religious freedom and religious pluralism
4.10 The attitudes of Christianity towards other religions including the reasons for them
RELIGION AND THE MEDIA
The variety and range of specifically religious programmes
One religious programme in depth and the reasons for its
popularity/unpopularity
How TV soap operas or the national daily press deal with
religious and moral issues of importance to Christians
An in-depth study of how one such issue has been dealt with
A specifically religious theme or themes, of importance to Christians, as explored in one film or TV drama
Why the theme is important, how it was dealt with, whether the
treatment was fair to religious people, how the theme could have been
improved
Evaluation questions looking at the way in whch religion is dealt with by the media in a general way
RELIGION: WEALTH AND POVERTY
Christian teachings on the possession, uses, and dangers of wealth
Christian teachings on stewardship, almsgiving and charity,
compassion and justice the relationship between rich and poor
the relief of poverty and suffering in the United Kingdom by

the work of one Christian person, community or organisation to relieve poverty and suffering in the UK
An outline of the need for world development in response to the
causes, extent and effects of poverty in the world
The work of Christian agencies in world development and the relief of
poverty with detailed knowledge of one Christian agency and the
reasons for its work
Evaluation questions looking at the relationship of religion to wealth and poverty in a general way

About the Author(s):
Victor Watton is a bestselling author and Senior Examiner Diane Kolka is a Senior Examiner

Readership:
Students of Unit B on the Edexcel GCSE RS Spec A

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