Religious Studies

Exam board: AQA

 

Year 12

	Topic taught: Teacher 1
Term 1	Philosophy – arguments for the existence of God – cosmological. Ethics – Virtue theory. Christianity – Christian monotheism.
Term 2	Philosophy - arguments for the existence of God – ontological. Ethics – Natural moral law.
Term 3	Ethics – situation ethics. Christianity – Sources of wisdom and authority.
Term 4	Philosophy – challenges of evil. Ethics – application theft/lying/human/non-human.
Term 5	Philosophy -religious experiences & verifying religious experiences. Christianity – good moral conduct and key moral principles.
Term 6	Christianity – expressions of religious identity. Christianity and science.

 

Year 13

	Topic taught: Teacher 1
Term 1	Philosophy – religious language. Ethics – meta ethics, Bentham and Kant.
Term 2	Philosophy - self death and the afterlife. Ethics – free will and moral responsibility/conscience. Christianity – self, death and the afterlife.
Term 3	Philosophy – miracles. Christianity – religion gender and sexualities.
Term 4	Christianity – Religion and religious pluralism. Religion and the challenge of secularisation. Christianity and science
Term 5	DIALOGUES