OCR • Religious Studies

This 2 page document provides a summary of Wittgenstein's view of religious language, with criticisms along the way. What's inside: - Wittgenstein's picture theory - logical positivism with strengths and weaknesses - The vagueness of words - Wittgenstein's criticism of logical positivism - D.Z Phillips' view

This document is 2 pages long, so is only a brief summary, but is still useful for an in-depth understanding of Tillich's symbolic language! What's inside: - Tillich and symbolic language: a summary - Symbol examples - Criticisms of symbolism Essay plan: 'To what extent is symbol an effective way of communicating religious ideas?'

This 17-page booklet includes every single argument/scholar/piece of information you need to know for the topic AND includes synoptic links which are absolutely essential to achieve an A*. I only used this booklet to revise for my A level and got an A*! What's inside: - Possible practice questions Omnipotence: - God can do anything, including the impossible (Descartes, Anselm) with criticisms - God can only do the possible and logical (Aquinas, Swinburne) with criticisms - God delib...

This 15 page document is probably my most detailed booklet yet. It includes a summary of every theory in the problem of evil as well as their subsequent strengths and weaknesses. It also has detailed essay plans at the end. What's inside: - Key terms - Possible Exam Practice Questions - The logical problem of evil - Mackie and Epicurus - Strengths and weaknesses of the logical problem of evil - The evidential problem of evil - William Rowe - Responses to this ^ - Augustine's theo...

This 6 page document includes a summary of everything you need to know for the religious experience topic along with lots and lots of scholars' opinions on the topic. What's inside: - possible questions - Swinburne's 5 types of religious experience - Swinburne's two principles (Principle of credibility and principle of testimony) - Wittgenstein's views - Hick's views - William James' views - Key terms - James' Theory: philosophical pragmatism - Mysticism - Corporate religi...

This document is 13 pages which includes basic summaries of each argument as well as in-depth evaluations of each argument. What's inside: - Possible questions for the exam - The teleological argument (design) - The cosmological argument (causation) Teleological: - Aquinas' fifth way - Arguments from analogy; Aquinas' archer and arrow analogy, William Paley's watch analogy - Criticisms of the teleological argument including the challenge of evolution - Strengths/support for the tel...

This document includes a 3 page simple summary of the topic body, mind and soul for AS and A level. What's inside: - Possible questions that may come up - Plato's theory - Aristotle's theory - Descartes and Hume's theory - Hard materialism; identity theory, behaviourism, idealism, biological materialism - Soft materialism - Hick's replica theory These notes may be slightly incomplete as due to COVID-19, the content for RS A level in 2022 was reduced - therefore, these notes a...

This in-depth description (AO1) and analysis (AO3) of Ancient Philosophical Influences includes all the information you need to know for this topic in both AS level and A level. These notes include a detailed description of every concept including Plato's Cave, Plato's Forms and Form of the Good, Aristotle's Four Causes, and Prime Mover. As well as this, an in-depth evaluation is provided with a discussion of both the strengths and weaknesses of Plato and Aristotle's approach along with some...

This was written in year 13, achieving an A* grade and discussing Freud's approach to conscience

This was written in year 13, achieving full marks, thus an A* grade and discussing pluralism