PEARSON (PEARSON) • Religious Studies 2016

Notes on the three ethical systems tested in your A-Level Religious Studies exam. Very detailed

Summary of Philosophy Unit 6 - Influences and developments in religious belief, including: 6.1 - Views about Life After Death Across a Range of Religious Traditions Immortality of the soul: soul as non-physical and spiritual and continuing to exist a2er death of body, Rebirth: belief there is no unchanging soul and importance of karma; Replica theory: noon that one can die in one body and continue to live in a different body while being the same person, including after death; Resurrectio...

Summary of Philosophy Unit 5 - works of scholars specification, including: 5.1 - Context to Critiques of Religious Belief and Points for Discussion Respective strengths and weaknesses of religious beliefs; Alternative explanations, issues of probability and postmodern interpretations of religion; Key terms, types of atheism and agnosticism 5.2 - A Comparison between a Critic of Religion, Bertrand Russell, and a Religious Believer, Frederick Copleston The context of the writings of R...

A summary of Philosophy Unit 4 - Religious language specification, including: 4.1 - Analogy and Symbol Analogy: via negativa, knowledge about God may be gained by what God is not like, univocal language and problems of anthropomorphism, equivocal language and problems of a8ribuon, signi+cance of proportional similarities and dissimilarities Symbol: types of symbol across a range of religious traditions, distincon between signs and symbols, symbols identifying and participating ...

Summary of Philosophy Unit 3 - the problem of evil and suffering specification, including: 3.1 - Problem of Evil and Su(ering The nature of the problem across a range of religious traditions, types of evil and suffering, moral and non-moral, the challenge to religious belief posed by the inconsistency of the nature of God and the evident existence of evil and suffering challenging belief in the existence of God 3.2 - Theodicies and Solutions to the Problem of Suffering Belief that crea...

Summary of Philosophy Unit 2 - the nature and influence of religious experience specification notes, including: 2.1 - The Nature of Religious Experience: Context of religious experience across religious traditions, range of dominions related to belief in God and/or ulmate reality, theistic and monistic views, ineffability, noetic, transience, passivity; Types: conversion, prayer, meditation, mysticism, numinous, relationship between religious experience and proposional and non-proposi...

Summary of philosophy unit 1 - philosophical issues and questions specification. Design argument: Inductive reasoning, a posteriori types of arguments, interpretation of experience; Types of order and regularity, role of analogy, cumulative e/ect of evidence, anthropic principle, regularies of co-principle and regularities of succession; Strengths and weaknesses of Design Arguments: probability rather than proof, alternative interpretations, including evolution and deism, challenges to t...

Explore Bentham’s act utilitarianism. -8 marks Achieved grade A.

Explore the key ideas of rule utilitarianism. -8 marks Achieved a grade A.

Edexcel AS/A Level Religious Studies Philosophy - Unit 3 Problems of Evil and Suffering Contains: Key Scholars and Books, Theories on the Existence of Evil, the Logical and Evidential Problem of Evil