OCR • Religious Studies

summary of key points and scholars for a level ocr rs

a summary of key ponts and scholors with A01 and A02 marking points.

This resource is an OCR A Level Religious Studies essay structure/stem that I memorised and used for my A level exams to write full 40-mark exam answers. It provides a flexible but high-level framework for constructing balanced essays, including clear argument development, use of key scholars, and structured evaluation across key topics such as ethics and philosophy of religion. The structure is designed to help students consistently achieve top band marks by providing a clear method for evalu...

This resource is an OCR A Level Religious Studies essay structure/stem that I memorised and used for my A level exams to write full 40-mark exam answers. It provides a flexible but high-level framework for constructing balanced essays, including clear argument development, use of key scholars, and structured evaluation across key topics such as ethics and philosophy of religion. The structure is designed to help students consistently achieve top band marks by providing a clear method for evalu...

This is an OCR A Level Religious Studies essay on the question “Christian thinkers should not engage with the ideologies of atheists such as Marx – Discuss.” Written by myself achieving an A grade in OCR A Level Religious Studies (2021), it explores the relationship between Christianity and Marxist atheism, focusing on Marx’s critique of religion and whether Christians should engage with atheist ideas. The essay evaluates Marx’s key concepts such as alienation, false consciousness, an...

This is an OCR A Level Religious Studies Ethics essay on the question “Situation ethics is of no help with regard to the issue of euthanasia – Discuss.” Written by myself achieving an A grade in OCR A Level Religious Studies (2021), it explores Situation Ethics through the ideas of Joseph Fletcher, focusing on agape, personalism, relativism, and pragmatism, alongside key evaluation from Natural Law and Aquinas. The essay evaluates whether Situation Ethics provides a helpful moral framewor...

This is an OCR A Level Religious Studies Developments in Christian Thought essay on the question “To what extent should Christians resist secular views of gender?” Written by myself achieving an A grade in OCR A Level Religious Studies (2021), it explores Christian and secular perspectives on gender, examining whether traditional biblical teachings should be upheld or reinterpreted in modern society. The essay evaluates key ideas including feminism, complementarianism, egalitarianism, agape...

This is an OCR A Level Religious Studies Philosophy of Religion essay on the question “God is omniscient, omnibenevolent, and omnipotent – Discuss.” Written by myself achieving an A grade in OCR A Level Religious Studies (2021). It explores the traditional attributes of God, focusing on omnipotence, omniscience, and omnibenevolence, alongside key philosophical debates about the nature of God. The essay evaluates different interpretations of God's attributes through the views of thinker...

This is an OCR A Level Religious Studies Philosophy of Religion essay on the question “The world was created by chance, not God’s design – Discuss.” Written by myself achieving an A grade in OCR A Level Religious Studies (2021), it explores the teleological argument through the ideas of Aquinas and William Paley, alongside key criticisms from David Hume, John Stuart Mill, Charles Darwin, and Richard Dawkins. The essay evaluates whether the order and complexity of the universe point to a...

This is an OCR A Level Religious Studies Philosophy of Religion essay on the question “To what extent is the ontological argument successful in proving the existence of God – Discuss.” Written by myself achieving an A grade in OCR A Level Religious Studies (2021), it explores Anselm’s two forms of the ontological argument and Descartes’ development of the argument, alongside key criticisms from Gaunilo, Aquinas and Kant. The essay evaluates whether the ontological argument successfull...