Search for Meaning: Judaism, Christianity and Islam
Test : Christianity
Instructions:
Answer the following three questions in your own words by reflecting on the course material and what you learned about Christianity in the past 9 lessons.
You have one week to submit your answers. Each answer should be 150-200 words. Total words: 450-600.
Follow the guidance on the accompanying document concerning references.
Question 1:
Summarise Christian beliefs about ONE of the following: (i) God the Father; (ii) Jesus the Christ; (iii) the Holy Spirit. (150-200 words)
Question 2:
Answer part i AND part ii (150-200 words). [You may use bullet points to answer this question]
(i) Offer an appraisal of Linda Woodhead’s argument regarding the attraction of Christianity to men and women (in chapter 6 of Woodhead’s Christianity: A Very Short Introduction 1st edn. 2004);
(ii) Explain ‘lived religion’ and indicate how studies of lived religion have provided greater knowledge of the lives of Christian women.
Question 3:
What is secularization, and how does it relate to Christian decline in the West? (150-200 words)
