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Religious Studies OCR A-level revision notes covering the Ontological argument with reference to Anselm, Gaunilo’s criticisms, Kant’s criticisms, Descartes and Norman Malcom

Religious Studies OCR A-level revision notes covering the cosmological argument including reference to Aquinas' first three ways

Religious Studies OCR A-level revision notes covering the philosophical language of soul, mind and body in the thinking of Plato and Aristotle • metaphysics of consciousness, including: o substance dualism o materialism

Religious Studies OCR A-level revision notes covering the nature and influence of religious experience, including: o mystical experience o conversion experience • different ways in which individual religious experiences can be understood

Religious Studies OCR A-level revision notes covering the philosophical views of Plato, in relation to: o understanding of reality o the Forms o the analogy of the cave • the philosophical views of Aristotle, in relation to: o understanding of reality o the four causes o the Prime Move

Religious Studies OCR A-level revision notes on religious language covering the apophatic, cataphatic approaches and symbol with strengths and weaknesses of each

Augustine’s Teaching on Human Nature with reference to Pelagius, John HIck, Freud, Richard Dawkins and Ronald Niebuhr