AQA • Religious Studies

Covers moral responsibility, determinism (scientific, psychological, theological), reductionism, libertarianism, compatibilism (Hume), reward and punishment. Includes evaluation points for all approaches - useful for essays!

Covers Ayer's verification principle (& logical positivism), Popper's falsification principle, Hick's eschatological verification, Hare's bliks, Wittgenstein's language games, Aquinas - religious language as analogical (attribution and proportionality), the Via Negativa, Tillich - religious language as symbolic. Includes evaluation/argument points for all approaches to religious language - great for essays!

Covers why religious experiences are hard to prove, scientific challenge to religious experience (Freud, temporal lobe epilepsy, neurotheology, drugs), Swineburne's principles of testimony and credulity, the influence of religious experience, the value of religious experience for faith. Includes potential evaluation/argument points for use in essays.

Covers realist and anti-realist accounts of miracles (Tillich, Holland), Hume's critiques of miracles, Wiles' critiques of miracles, comparison of Hume vs Wiles, significance of realist and anti-realist accounts of miracles for religion. Includes potential evaluation/argument points for each topic.

Covers Paley's Design argument (and Hume's criticisms), the Ontological argument (Anselm, Kant's criticisms, Gaunilo's criticisms, Descartes' argument), the Cosmological argument (Aquinas, Russell & Hume's criticisms). Includes for each argument its status as a proof and value for religious faith - useful for evaluation questions.

These slides contain everything you need to know about Bentham and Kant for your A level AQA paper. It contains a full summary of the textbook and includes quotes, key content and points for evaluation for your 15 mark questions. These notes were used last year (2024) to get a high grade A. It is written in a casual and clear way so you don't have to wade through the dense writing in the textbook. The content is structured in slides, and spaced out so that reading and memorisation is easy.

Notes covering the entirety of AQA A level RS Paper One. Achieved grade A*. Complete revision notes tailored to specification. Also some question plans/ example answers Notes for: Arguments for the existence of God Evil and suffering Religious experience Religious language Miracles Self and life after death. Ethical theories Issues of human life and death Issues of animal life and death Introduction to meta ethics Free will and moral responsibility Conscience Bentham and Kant.

An in-depth guide into Buddhism as a religion and the philosophical as well as ethical ideas around the religion. The document, which is over 90 pages long, clearly details everything you need to secure a top grade. The notes cover all the AQA specification points. The document contains detailed and relevant comparisons between the two main schools of Buddhism (Theravada and Mahayana) and it also explicitly analyses why the differences exist.

Over 115 pages of well-structured, detailed and clear notes on the entirety of the A-level philosophy and ethics course. It is a complete guide on all the knowledge you need to get top grades, with many exam-style questions, key scholars and quotes, arguments with counterarguments, and explorations of relevant ethical dilemmas.

A-Level Religious Studies (RS) Section B Notes – Developments in Christian Thought Get top grades with detailed, exam-focused notes on A-Level RS Section B! Perfect for revision and essay writing, these notes cover key theological and philosophical ideas with clear explanations and evaluations. What’s Included? Human Nature & The Self – Augustine’s teaching on Original Sin Death & The Afterlife – Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory Knowledge of God – Natural vs. Revealed Theolog...