Resources for AQA A Level Religious Studies (Philosophy) - both Year 12 and Year 13 content for Component 1. Assemblies/PSHCE/General RE content from KS3 through to Sixth Form.
Also content for Eduqas GCSE Religious Studies (Route B) and Judaism.
Resources for AQA A Level Religious Studies (Philosophy) - both Year 12 and Year 13 content for Component 1. Assemblies/PSHCE/General RE content from KS3 through to Sixth Form.
Also content for Eduqas GCSE Religious Studies (Route B) and Judaism.
The Strengths and Weaknesses of the Design Argument with particular reference to Hume’s criticisms.
Learning Objectives: Explore the weaknesses of the Design Argument.
Understand the views of David Hume on the Design Argument.
The Cosmological Argument
A number of resources to cover the Cosmological Argument. Created for A-Level AQA.
Could be used for other A-Level exam boards or GCSE.
Contains:
The Four Causes
The Cosmological Argument
Strengths and Weaknesses of the Cosmological Argument with focus on Hume and Russell
Information on the Ontological Argument containing the following:
Starter activity
St Anselm
Type of Argument
Proslogian 1 + 2
Reductio Ad Absurdum
Gaunilo’s criticism
Introduction to the Ontological Argument
Contains information on :
What kind of argument?
What do words mean?
What does it mean to be a priori?
Brief into to the argument
Lesson on the Problem of Evil
Aim - to understand the difference between natural and moral evil and why evil is a problem for religious believers.
Includes Key words for this topic
Religious Experience Module
A number of resources to cover Religious Experience created for A-Level AQA.
Could be used for other A-Level exam boards or GCSE.
Contains:
Introduction to Religious Experience
Types of Visions (Corporeal, Imaginative and Intellectual)
Numinous experiences as presented by Otto
Mystical Experience as presented by James
Experiences as presented by Stace
The Principles of Credulity and Testimony as presented by Swinburne
Challenges to Religious Experience from Science and Psychology
Responses to these challenges
The influence of Religious Experience on the experiencer
Belief ‘in’ VS Belief ‘that’ as presented by H.H Price
The strengths and weaknesses of all thee above
Each lesson contains a powerpoint, notes and activites for the entire Religious Experience module
Swinburne’s principles of Credulity and Testimony
Challenges to Swinburne’s principles
Main aims of this lesson are:
To understand Swinburne’s principles
To understand the challenges to his Principles
Contains:
Highly detailed powerpoint
Notes on special considerations
Scientific responses to the principles
worksheet
Challenges Sheet
Realist Views of Miracles
Main aims of this lesson are:
To understand the realist view of miracles
To discuss the problems with the realist views of miracles
To create a set of notes on the problems of miracles
Contains:
Highly detailed PowerPoint
Activity booklet on Realist Miracles with examples
Scientific Realism and Realism for miracles comparison sheet
The problems with ‘natural laws’ worksheet
Anti- Realist Views of Miracles
Main aims of this lesson are:
To understand the anti-realist view of miracles
To discuss the problems with the realist and anti-realist views of miracles
To understand Holland’s view on miracles
Contains:
Highly detailed PowerPoint
Hollands miracle
Problems with realist and anti-realist views of miracles
Homework Tasks
The Free Will Defence as presented by Alvin Plantinga
Lesson aims:
Recall the FWD.
Explore Plantingas defence of the FWD.
Includes - Presentation, Plantinga notes, Homework sheet and starter sheet
Religious Experience and Walter Stace
Non-sensuous and non-intellectual union with the divine
Main aims of this lesson are:
To explore what non-sensuous and non-intellectual union is
To understand who Stace is and what he says about experiences
To understand Stace’s 7 parts of religious experience
Contains:
Highly detailed powerpoint
Notes for the carousel on the 7 parts of Stace’s religious experience
Recap of Miracles
Recap of Hume and Wiles Views on Miracles
Recap of the Criticisms of Hume and Wiles views
Main aims of this lesson are:
To understand the what we have learned about miracles
To discuss the problems with miracles according to Hume and Wiles
Contains:
Highly detailed PowerPoint
Sheets needed for recap lesson
Homework Task
Criticism tasks on Hume and Wiles views
Knowledge Organisers for Miracles
A level Religious Studies
AQA but could also be used for other exam boards
Realist Views
Anti-Realist Views
Holland
Wiles
Hume
Eduqas Religious Studies GCSE Chilli Challenge Sheet for the Life and Death Module.
Sheet contains:
12 Revision Ideas
Practice Questions for B, C and D Questions
This is for Route B (the Catholic paper)
Self, Death and the afterlife section
AQA Religious Studies A-Level
Philosophy section
Main aims of this lesson are:
To understand what the possibilites of psychological continuity after death
To understand Dennett’s argument
To think about the strengths and weaknesses of his argument
Contains:
Highly detailed PowerPoint
Notes on Dennet
Newspaper article for statrter
Mystical experiences as presented by William James
Main aims of this lesson are:
To understand what a Mystical Experience is.
To Understand the 4 key parts of James’ theory on Religious Experience
Contains:
Highly detailed powerpoint
Notes on James’ theory
Challenges to Religious Experiences
The responses to these challenges
Main aims of this lesson are:
To understand the challenges to Religious Experience
Contains:
Highly detailed powerpoint
Match up task for challenges and responses
Challenges pack
Responses pack
