OCR RS A Level: 40/40 Liberation Theology full essay plans

These notes provide everything you need to get an 40/40 or a high A in Liberation Theology questions. The plans are clear, easy to read and colour-coded so you can see AO1 and AO2. I’ve been tutoring OCR RS A Level for over a decade, and I have a degree in Theology from Cambridge.

These aren’t textbook-style notes explaining the thinkers. Don’t download if you don’t understand the main thinkers already! These notes cut straight to the point and give you 40/40 essays for all possible questions on Liberation Theology for the OCR A Level. As with all OCR RS topics, there are a limited number of possible questions from the specification, and this document gives you A Grade essay for all possible question.

These plans use a structure of six shortish paragraphs, with two AO1 and four AO2. You could, instead, have paragraphs that mix AO1 and AO2. Whatever you do, two thirds of your essay should be two thirds AO2 because two thirds of the marks are AO2.

There are many other strengths and weaknesses of these theories, this is just one way of writing 40/40 essays. You may have to adapt a plan to the exact wording of the question set, but in OCR RS there are a small number of possible question themes and these plans cover all those themes, if not the exact wording of every possible question.

Provided are detailed plans for:
Question theme 1: should Christian theology engage with atheist secular ideologies?
Question theme 2: does Christianity tackle social issues more effectively than Marxism?
Question theme 3: Does liberation theology engage with Marxism fully enough?
Question theme 4: Is it right for Christians to prioritise one group over another / evaluate the preferential option for the poor.