OCR • Religious Studies

Quite a complicated essay question that may be useful if you want to prepare for the harder questions! Includes; thesis and 4 further paragraphs with case studies and scholars.

Question: 'Assess the view that utilitarianism provides the best approach to business ethics' Includes; Thesis and 4 paragraphs. Very detailed and includes examples and scholars!

This 21 page booklet includes all you need to know for your A level exam on Euthanasia! It includes detailed summaries of every concept as well as applied euthanasia to natural law and situation ethics and case studies to support points. There are also in depth essay plans at the end. What's inside: - Autonomy and euthanasia - Case study of Tony Bland with PVS - Glover's views - The Hippocratic Oath - Distinction between Acts and Omissions (Rachels) - Glover on ordinary and extra...

This 6 page document includes 3 extremely detailed essay plans on religious language. What's inside: Question 1 - 'Does the apophatic way provide an effective method for theological discussion?' Question 2 - To what extent is symbol an effective way of communicating religious ideas? Question 3 - To what extent is the via-positiva (cataphatic way, Aquinas) an effective way of communicating religious ideas? These essay plans include a wide range of scholars, counter arguments, a A* ...

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

This was written in year 13, achieving full marks, thus an A* grade and discussing pluralism

This was written in year 13, achieving an A* grade and discussing God's omnibenevolence and salvation

this was written in year 13, achieving an A* grade and discussing gender

this was written in year 13, achieving an A* and discussing daly's feminist theology

This was written in year 13, achieving an A* and discussing whther it is only the bible where christians should obey commands from

This was writtin in year 13, achieving an A* grade and discussing pluralism