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.
Hick’s response to the problem of evil
Main aims of this lesson are:
Recall the Irenaean Theodicy.
Understand John Hick’s views on the Problem of Evil.
Contains: notes, strengths and weaknesses and a recap of Hick
Process Theodicy as a response to the problem of evil
Main aims of this lesson are:
Explore the notion of Process Theodicy.
Examine the strengths and weaknesses of Process Theodicy.
Contains: notes and strengths and weaknesses
Religious Language as an analogy as presented by Aquinas
Main aims of this lesson are:
To understand how religious language can be meaningful through analogy
To understand what Aquinas thinks about religious language
To understand the strengths and weaknesses
Contains:
Highly detailed PowerPoint
Notes on religious language as an analogy
Worksheet
Strengths and weaknesses
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
The influence of religious experience on the experiencer
Belief ‘in’ vs belief ‘that’
Main aims of this lesson are:
To understand the influence of religious experience
To understand the difference of belief ‘in’ and belief ‘that’ according to H.H Price
Contains:
Highly detailed powerpoint
Belief in and that worksheet
Blank worksheet
Religious Language and the Verification principle
Main aims of this lesson are:
To understand who the Logical Positivists were
To understand the Verification Principle
Contains:
Highly detailed PowerPoint
Notes on Logical Positivism and the Verification principle
Religious Langauge Module
A number of resources to cover Religious Language created for A-Level AQA.
Could be used for other A-Level exam boards or GCSE.
Contains:
Introduction to Religious Language
Language as analogy
Language as a blik
Language as cognitive or non-cognitive
Language as symbolic
The Falsification Principle
The Verification Principle
Hick’s eschatalogical verification
Wittgensteins language games
The strengths and weaknesses of all thee above
Each lesson contains a powerpoint, notes and activites for the entire religious language module
Eduqas Religious Studies GCSE Chilli Challenge Sheet for the Sin and Forgiveness Module.
Sheet contains:
12 Revision Ideas
Practice Questions for B, C and D Questions
This is for Route B (the Catholic paper)
Knowledge Organisers for the Philosophy content
A level Religious Studies
AQA but could also be used for other exam boards
26 PPT slides which span across the entirity of the Philosophy Content for AQA Religious Studies Philsophy section.
These can be printed off, emailed or blown up to A3.
Eduqas Religious Studies GCSE Chilli Challenge Sheet
Sheet contains:
12 Revision Ideas
Practice Questions for B, C and D Questions
This is for the Judaism module so can be used for Route A and B
Self, Death and the afterlife section
AQA Religious Studies A-Level
Philosophy section
Main aims of this lesson are:
To understand what Interactionalism, Physicalism and Functionalism are
To understand the ‘hard problem’ of consciousness
To think about the strengths and weaknesses of these
Contains:
Highly detailed PowerPoint
Notes on Functionalism
Self, Death and the afterlife section
AQA Religious Studies A-Level
Philosophy section - Ryle and The Ghost in the Machine
Main aims of this lesson are:
To understand what Ryle’s Argument is
To understand to main criticisms of Descartes Argument
Contains:
Highly detailed PowerPoint
Notes on the Problem of a soul substance
Self, Death and the afterlife section
AQA Religious Studies A-Level
Philosophy section
Main aims of this lesson are:
To understand what Reincarnation is
To understand what a near death experience is
To know the strengths and weaknesses of both
Contains:
Highly detailed PowerPoint
Notes on reincarnation
Notes on Near Death Experiences
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.
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
A powerpoint to go over the problem of evil.
Goes over the two types of evidential problems - poinless and quality and quantity
Aim of the Lesson:
Explain what is meant by the ‘Evidential Problem’.
Examine its strengths and weaknesses.
Excerpt from Brothers karamazov included
