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A-Level Religious Studies (AQA 7062), against the DfE/Ofqual subject content.
Overview
A-Level Religious Studies (AQA 7062), against the DfE/Ofqual subject content.
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Examines the design, ontological and cosmological arguments for God's existence alongside their major philosophical criticisms.
Considers the problem of evil as a challenge to belief in God and the main theistic responses or theodicies.
Explores types of religious experience such as visions, numinous and mystical encounters and what they suggest about God.
Assesses how far religious experiences can be authenticated, including scientific challenges and Swinburne's principles of credulity and testimony.
Investigates whether statements about God are meaningful, addressing cognitive and non-cognitive views and the verification and falsification debates.
Analyses differing definitions of miracle and philosophical debates about whether miracles can occur and be believed.
Studies concepts of the soul, body and personal identity together with views on the possibility of life after death.
Introduces deontological, teleological and character-based approaches including natural moral law, situation ethics and virtue ethics.
Applies natural moral law, situation ethics and virtue ethics to practical questions of human and non-human life and death.
Explores the meaning of moral terms such as right and wrong and whether ethical statements describe objective facts.
Examines debates over freedom and determinism and their implications for holding people morally accountable.
Compares psychological and theological accounts of conscience and its role in making moral decisions.
Studies the contrasting ethical frameworks of Bentham's utilitarianism and Kant's duty-based moral philosophy.
In-depth study of one religion (Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam or Judaism) covering its sources, beliefs, practices and lived expression.
Evaluates how the studied religion interacts with and is challenged by ideas from the philosophy of religion.
Evaluates how the studied religion engages with and responds to issues raised by ethical studies.
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AS-Level
Advanced Subsidiary — the first year of A-Level study (standalone or first half of the full A-Level).
A-Level (A2)
The full Advanced Level — AS content plus the second-year A2 content.
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