Comprehensive revision notes, made with the new specification in mind, for Edexcel’s Religious Studies AS and A Level course.

All topics are covered:

  • 1.1 Design Argument

  • 1.2 Cosmological Argument

  • 1.3 Ontological Argument

  • 2.1 The nature of religious experience

  • 2.2 Influence of religious experience

  • 3.1 Problem of evil and suffering

  • 3.2 Theodicies and solutions to the problem of suffering

  • 4.1 Analogy and Symbol

  • 4.2 Verification and falsification debates

  • 4.3 Language games

  • 5.1 Context to critiques of religious belief and points for discussion

  • 5.2 A comparison between a critic of religion, Bertrand Russell, and a religious believer, Frederick Copleston

  • 6.1 Views about life after death across a range of religious traditions

  • 6.2 Points for discussion about life after death

  • 6.3 Religion and science debates and their significance for philosophy of religion

  • 1.1 Environmental issues

  • 1.2 Equality

  • 2.1 Utilitarianism

  • 2.2 Situation Ethics

  • 3.1 War and peace

  • 3.2 Sexual Ethics

  • 4.1 Meta-ethics

  • 4.2 The relationship between religion and morality

  • 5.1 A comparison of the work of Immanuel Kant and Aristotle with regard to Deontology and Virtue Ethics respectively

  • 6.1 Issues in medical ethics with a focus on beginning and end of life debates

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mich161616

5 years ago
3

This resource has breadth and covers all the basic points of the unit. However, there is not a lot of depth and it would have been helpful to have some practice questions or other activities.

piaayka2018

6 years ago
4

Hiya, do you have any new testament notes??

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