Religious Language 2 - WHOLE UNIT! (A-Level RS OCR)

This is a whole unit of lessons to teach the Religious Language: Twentieth Century Perspectives unit of the OCR Religious Studies A-level. It would likely be appropriate for other exam boards also.

This resource includes lesson powerpoints for the whole unit (both a student and a teacher version), an accompanying student booklet which follows the powerpoint exactly, as well as a summary table and information sheet on evaluating the verification principle. It is all ready to teach and supports independent, student-led learning.

This covers all the points on the OCR specification with a focus on the verification principle, the falsification symposium and Wittgenstein’s language games. The key ideas are explored through many scholars, including but not limited to Wittgenstein, Ayer, the Vienna Circle and logical positivists, Flew, Hare, Mitchell and Hick. Each approach is also individually evaluated, with students encouraged to make comparisons between the usefulness of different approaches and assess whether the principles render religious language meaningful or meaningless.

It encourages students to evaluate which approach to religious language is most useful; whether or not any version of the verification principle successfully renders religious language as meaningless; whether or not any participant in the falsification symposium presented a convincing approach to the understanding of religious language; and a comparison of the cognitive ideas of Aquinas and the non-cognitive ideas of Wittgenstein.

A complete unit of work, ready to teach!

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