A Level Religious Studies (OCR)

A Level Religious Studies

Dates Available

• Week 1: Monday 25 March – Friday 29 March
• Week 2: Monday 1 April – Friday 5 April
• Week 3: Monday 8 April – Friday 12 April

Boards

OCR H573

Length of Course

8 hour seminars

Times

9am to 6pm daily

1. Philosophy of religion

• Ancient philosophical influences.
• The nature of the soul, mind and body.
• Arguments about the existence or non-existence of God.
• The nature and impact of religious experience.
• The challenge for religious belief of the problem of evil.
• Ideas about the nature of God.
• Issues in religious language.

2. Religion and ethics

• Normative ethical theories
• The application of ethical theory to two contemporary issues of importance: euthanasian and business ethics.
• Ethical language and thought.
• Debates surrounding the significant idea of conscience.
• Sexual ethics and the influence on ethical thought of developments in religious beliefs.

3. Developments in religious thought (Christianity)

• Religious beliefs, values and teachings, their interconnections and how they vary historically and in the contemporary world.
• Sources of religious wisdom and authority.
• Practices which shape and express religious identity, and how these vary within Christianity.
• Significant social and historical developments in theology and religious thought.
• Key themes related to the relationship between religion and society.