You answer two questions about
Christianity in this exam. The second
question is about:
This PowerPoint tells you what you
need to know. The final slide also has
some suggested revision activities.
There are four key areas for this
question:
Treating people the same
Treating people differently
Thinking badly about other groups
Doing badly against other groups
Racism [prejudice against different races] and racial discrimination [doing
bad things against different races] still exist today.
Stephen Lawrence – murdered black teenager in 1990s, killers only just
sent to prison
Between races, not just black-white
Most Christians are against racism e.g. Church of England and Roman
Catholics. Key examples are:
Jesus in Bible – “love thy neighbour as you love yourself”
Book of Genesis – “God created man and woman in his own image”
St Peter in Bible – God does not have favourites
St Paul in Bible – “there is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor
female, you are all one in Christ Jesus”
Jesus told the Parable [story with a moral] of the Good Samaritan where
Jewish people ignored an injured Jew but a Samaritan, a traditional
enemy, helped him.
 Famous Christians against racism:
Martin Luther King – in the South of the USA in the 1950/60s “dream
speech”
Desmond Tutu – in South Africa he worked against apartheid, where they
separated black and white.
 Some Christians support racism
Dutch Reformed Church – supported racist apartheid in South Africa
KKK – Ku Klux Klan violent racist gang in the USA
Empires – British Empire built on slavery and was supported by many
Christians
Even today, women are more likely to: be raped, do most of the
housework, be paid less on average, be single parents.
Liberal Christian View – women and men are equal
- Jesus was friends with women
- Early Christian church had strong women leaders eg Phoebe and Priscilla
- After Jesus’ resurrection [when Christians believe he rose from the
dead] he was first seen by women
- The Bible compares God to lots of different things wind, vines, lamb.
Calling God ‘father’ is a metaphor, it does not mean God is male
Church of England allow women priests.
Traditional Christian View – women and men are not equal
- Bible talks of God as ‘he’, ‘him’ and ‘Father’
- Old Testament of the Bible says:
‘women should be silent in church’
‘the head of the woman is a man’
- Book of Genesis blames Eve for tempting Adam
- All Jesus’ apostles [main followers] were male
- Roman Catholic Church does not allow women to be priests
Reconciliation - means peace between you and others/God
Salvation - Christians believe Jesus died on the Cross to save man from
sins
Communion – when Christians eat bread and wine in church they do it to
remember God’s forgiveness
Lord’s Prayer/’Our Father’ – most common Christian prayer says “forgive
us our sins as we forgive those who sin against us”
Confession – Catholics go to this. The penitent [person saying sorry] tells
the priest what they have done wrong. They are given a penance [what
they have to do e.g. say prayers] and are forgiven
Desmond Tutu – in South Africa he set up the Truth and Reconciliation
commission. People admitted the racist crimes they had done and were
forgiven. People say it stopped there being a war.
Christian attitudes to other religions can be described with three terms:
EXCLUSIVIST
INCLUSIVIT
PLURALIST
EXCLUSIVIST – believe Christianity is best and only way. All nonChristians go to hell.
Believe they should make everyone Christian. Getting people to be
Christians is called proselytising.
Gospel of Matthew says “make disciples of all nations”
Missionaries spend their lives telling others about Jesus. This is called
evangelism.
Early example of a missionary: St Paul in the Bible
Modern examples of missionaries: Salvation Army
INCLUSIVIST – believe Christianity is best but other religions are ok,
especially if they are similar.
Many Christians are inclusivist. They work to bring different Christian
churches together. This is called ecumenism. One place where Christians
of different religions meet is in Taize, France.
Even in Newcastle there is a group called SACRE – which has people from
different religions working together to teach young people
PLURALIST – believe that all religions are equally good. There is no one
truth and not just one way to God.
READ through the PowerPoint. As you do, SEARCH the internet
for pictures to help you remember the examples and ADD them
into the slides.
PLAY the PowerPoint through. The titles and pictures will appear
before the words. See how much of the writing you can
REMEMBER. You can then bring up the writing to CHECK. Try to
REPEAT this several times until you are remembering more of the
writing.
Look at the QUESTIONS that have been asked about this in
previous exams. The questions are listed on the Word document
next to where you found this PowerPoint. CHECK you know what all
the words mean. PLAN your answers to some of the questions. You
can also WRITE practice answers and show them to your teacher.
If you can’t remember what Christians believe,
talk about these 4 things. They are what most
Christians use to take decisions:
Bible
Church
Famous Christians
Conscience – their own mind
You can remember it with
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