OCR • Religious Studies

The complete OCR H573 A Level Religious Studies revision guide — written by an A* student, now studying at the University of Cambridge — covering all three papers (Philosophy of Religion, Religion and Ethics, Developments in Christian Thought) in one download. Full scholar bank, essay question-spotting, worked essay plans, model essays, diagrams, and a synoptic links section connecting scholars across all three papers — 122 pages, instant-download PDF.

OCR H573 Developments in Christian Thought revision notes — written by an A* student in OCR H573 Religious Studies, now studying at the University of Cambridge. Covers the full OCR Christianity specification (H573/03): Augustine's Teaching on Human Nature, Death and the Afterlife, Knowledge of God, the Person of Jesus Christ, Christian Moral Principles, Bonhoeffer, Religious Pluralism, Gender and Society/Theology, Secularism, and Liberation Theology. Includes a full scholar bank, essay questio...

OCR H573 Religion and Ethics revision notes — written by an A* student in OCR H573 Religious Studies, now studying at the University of Cambridge. Covers the full OCR Ethics specification (H573/02): Natural Law, Situation Ethics, Kantian Ethics, Utilitarianism, Euthanasia, Business Ethics, Meta-ethics, Conscience, and Sexual Ethics. Includes a full scholar bank, essay question-spotting lists, worked essay plans, model essays, and diagrams — 46 pages, instant-download PDF.

OCR H573 Philosophy of Religion revision notes — written by an A* student in OCR H573 Religious Studies, now studying at the University of Cambridge. This is the exact, complete revision guide used to achieve that grade, covering every part of the OCR Philosophy of Religion specification (H573/01): Ancient Philosophical Influences, Soul Mind and Body, the Cosmological, Teleological and Ontological Arguments, Religious Experience, the Problem of Evil, the Nature and Attributes of God, and both ...

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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...

This is an OCR A Level Religious Studies Developments in Christian Thought essay on the question “Augustine’s view of human nature is deeply pessimistic – Discuss.” Written by myself after achieving an A grade in OCR A Level Religious Studies (2021), it explores Augustine’s understanding of human nature, focusing on original sin, the Fall, free will, grace, and predestination. The essay evaluates whether Augustine’s view is overly pessimistic, considering concepts such as concupisce...

This is an OCR A Level Religious Studies Developments in Christian Thought essay on the question “Humans have an innate knowledge of God – Discuss”, written by myself after achieving an A grade in OCR A Level Religious Studies (2021). It explores the idea of natural knowledge of God, focusing on John Calvin’s concept of sensus divinitatis and the belief that humans have an inbuilt awareness of the divine. The essay evaluates arguments for and against innate knowledge of God, considering...

This is an OCR A Level Religious Studies Ethics essay on the question “Evaluate Aquinas’ theological approach to conscience”, written by myself (grade A). It explores Aquinas’ understanding of conscience through key concepts such as synderesis, conscientia, reason (ratio), practical reason, real and apparent goods, and vincible and invincible ignorance. The essay evaluates whether Aquinas’ theological approach provides a convincing explanation of conscience, considering its strengths...

This is an OCR A Level Religious Studies Philosophy of Religion essay on the June 2019 exam question “Critically compare the logical and evidential aspects of the problem of evil as challenges to belief”, written by myself (grade A). It explores the logical and evidential problems of evil, explaining how each challenges belief in an omnipotent, omnibenevolent and omniscient God. The essay examines key responses to the problem of evil, including Augustine’s theodicy, the Irenaean theodicy,...

This is an OCR A Level Religious Studies Ethics essay written by myself (grade A) on the question “The only requirement of morality is to do our duty – Discuss.” It focuses on Kantian ethics, explaining key ideas such as duty, good will, the categorical imperative, and treating people as ends in themselves. The essay applies these ideas to moral issues and dilemmas, such as stealing and conflicts of duty, and considers whether reason alone is enough to guide moral decision-making. It also...

Model essay written by myself (Grade A). This is an OCR A Level Religious Studies Philosophy of Religion essay on religious language, focused on the debate between the cataphatic (via positiva) and apophatic (via negativa) approaches to describing God. The essay weighs up both approaches and considers whether religious language is meaningful, anthropomorphic, or too limited by human understanding. It concludes by arguing that the cataphatic approach is the most useful, as it allows believers to...