Conflict with authority
What Conflict with authority means in Religious Studies GCSE, as defined for AQA.
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The cleansing of the Temple challenges religious corruption and initiates the conflict of the final days with the religious authorities.
The teachers of the law, belonging to the Pharisees, were outraged and questioned why Jesus associates with such outcasts.
Jesus faces the High Priest and the Sanhedrin, who seek evidence to execute him but find none.
Topics that use Conflict with authority
- Theme G: St Mark’s gospel: the life of Jesus (AQA GCSE)
- Theme H: St Mark’s Gospel as a source of religious, moral and spiritual truths (AQA GCSE)
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- Authority of Jesus
- Discipleship
- Discipleship and failure
- Divine authority
- Faith
- Faith and Healing
- Faith and unbelief
- Kingdom of God
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