GCSE Religious Studies

Beliefs and teachings
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What Christians and Muslims hold about God, revelation, humanity and the afterlife.

Beliefs and teachings guides

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Revision guideGreater and lesser jihad

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Open guide Revision guideAkhirah: Muslim beliefs about the afterlife

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Open guide Revision guideThe Five Pillars of Islam

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Open guide Revision guideTawhid

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Open guide Revision guideChristian beliefs about the afterlife

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Open guide Revision guideSalvation and atonement

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Open guide Revision guideThe incarnation

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Open guide Revision guideThe Trinity

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Open guide Revision guideIslam: beliefs and teachings

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Open guide Revision guideChristianity: beliefs and teachings

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Christianity: beliefs and teachings

The nature of God, the Trinity, creation, Jesus, salvation and the afterlife — the beliefs that every theme paper then applies.

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Islam: beliefs and teachings

Tawhid, angels, books, prophets, destiny and the afterlife, with the Sunni–Shi’a difference examiners expect you to name.

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The Trinity

GCSE Religious Studies on the Trinity: one God in three persons — Father, Son and Holy Spirit — why Christians insist this is monotheism, and how baptism, worship and heresy questions use it.

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The incarnation

GCSE Religious Studies on the incarnation: the Word made flesh, fully God and fully human, why Christmas is a doctrine not a nativity play, and how it underwrites the Cross.

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Salvation and atonement

GCSE Religious Studies on salvation and atonement: grace, faith and works, why the Cross is more than a slogan, and how Catholic and Protestant churches tell the same rescue differently.

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Christian beliefs about the afterlife

GCSE Religious Studies on Christian afterlife: bodily resurrection, judgement, heaven and hell, Catholic purgatory, and why funerals and ethics change if death is not the end.

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Tawhid

GCSE Religious Studies on tawhid: the oneness of Allah, why shirk is the gravest sin, how Surah 112 answers Christian “Son” language, and why this belief drives prayer, law and art.

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The Five Pillars of Islam

GCSE Religious Studies on the Five Pillars: shahadah, salah, zakah, sawm and hajj — not a checklist of hobbies, but the lived shape of tawhid, ummah and submission.

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Akhirah: Muslim beliefs about the afterlife

GCSE Religious Studies on akhirah: death, barzakh, resurrection, the scales, Jannah and Jahannam — why the Last Day makes ethics serious now, and how mercy sits with judgement.

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Greater and lesser jihad

GCSE Religious Studies on jihad: the greater struggle against the self, the lesser armed defence under limits, Qur’an 2:190’s “do not transgress”, and why this is a beliefs topic rather than a headline.

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