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This 2 page document includes a summary of Aquinas' cataphatic way or via positive. If you are struggling to understand this concept, reading this document is the way to go! 
 
What's inside: 
- Aquinas' cataphatic way explained 
- definitions of univocal language and equivocal language 
- Analogy 
- Why we would use analogy according to Aquinas 
- Analogy of attribution 
- Analogy of proper proportion 
- examples to further aid understanding
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