OCR Religious Studies A Level Year 2
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English
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9781471866753
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1 Philosophy of religion
Chapter 1 The nature or attributes of God
1 Introduction
2 Divine attributes
3 Conclusions
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Summary diagram: The nature or attributes of God
Chapter 2 The nature of God: God, eternity and free will
1 Introduction
2 Boethius
3 St Anselm
4 Richard Swinburne
5 Alvin Plantinga
6 Free will, timelessness and God’s attributes
7 Conclusions
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Summary diagram: The nature of God: God, eternity and free will
Chapter 3 Religious language: apophatic and cataphatic use
1 Introduction
2 Cognitive and non-cognitive sentences
3 Via negativa (the apophatic way)
4 Via positiva (the cataphatic way)
5 Reconciling via positiva and via negativa
6 Conclusions
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Summary diagram: Religious language: apophatic and cataphatic use
Chapter 4 Religious language: analogy and symbol
1 Introduction
2 Analogy
3 Symbol
4 Apophatic language, analogy and symbol: a comparison
5 Conclusions
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Summary diagram: Religious language: analogy and symbol
Chapter 5 Religious language: 20th century perspectives – verification and meaning
1 Introduction
2 The development of logical positivism
3 Verification theory
4 Implications of Ayer’s verification principle on the use of religious language
5 Responses to Ayer’s verification principle
6 Swinburne’s solution and the nature of sentences about God
7 Conclusions
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Summary diagram: Religious language: 20th-century perspectives – verification and meaning
Chapter 6 Religious language: 20th century perspectives – Wittgenstein and language games
1 Introduction
2 Language games
3 The religious significance of language games
4 Language games and sacred texts
5 Language games: cognitive or non-cognitive?
6 Analogy or language games?
7 Objections to language games
8 Wittgensteinian Fideism
9 Conclusions
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Summary diagram: Religious language: 20th-century perspectives – Wittgenstein and language games
Chapter 7 Religious language: 20th century perspectives – the falsification debate
1 Introduction
2 Popper and the falsification debate
3 The falsification symposium: Antony Flew and the University debate
4 The falsification symposium: R. M. Hare and bliks
5 The falsification symposium: Basil Mitchell and the partisan
6 The falsification symposium: John Hick and eschatological verification
7 The falsification symposium: some final considerations
8 Conclusions
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Summary diagram: Religious language: 20th-century perspectives – the falsification debate
2 Religion and ethics
Chapter 8 Ethical language: meta-ethics
1 Introduction
2 Defining ethical terms
3 The fact/value, is/ought problem
4 Naturalism
5 Intuitionism
6 Emotivism
7 Alternative viewpoints
8 Conclusions
Study advice
Study diagram: Ethical language: meta-ethics
Chapter 9 Conscience – Aquinas and Freud
1 Introduction
2 Conscience – Thomas Aquinas’ views
3 Conscience – Sigmund Freud’s view
4 Aquinas and Freud’s theories: a comparison
5 Conclusions
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Summary diagram: Conscience – Aquinas and Freud
Chapter 10 Sexual ethics
1 Introduction
2 Christian teaching on premarital and extramarital sex
3 Christian teaching on homosexuality
4 The impact of secularism on sexual ethics
5 Application of ethical theories
Summary diagram: Sexual ethics
3 Developments in Christian thought
Chapter 11 Religious pluralism and theology
1 Introduction
2 Religious pluralism
3 Theological exclusivism
4 Theological inclusivism
5 Theological pluralism
Summary diagram: Religious pluralism and theology
Chapter 12 Religious pluralism and society
1 Introduction
2 The development of contemporary multi-faith societies
3 Inter-faith dialogue
4 The scriptural reasoning movement
Summary diagram: Religious pluralism and society
Chapter 13 Gender and society
1 Introduction
2 Feminism and changing views of gender
3 Biblical teaching on the roles of men and women in the family and society
4 Christian responses to secular gender roles, parenthood and the family
Summary diagram: Gender and society
Chapter 14 Gender and theology
1 Introduction
2 God, the Bible and feminism
3 Rosemary Radford Ruether
4 Mary Daly
5 A comparison of Ruether’s and Daly’s feminist theologies
Summary diagram: Gender and theology
Chapter 15 The challenge of secularism
1 Introduction
2 Secularism
3 God as illusion, wish fulfilment and source of harm
4 Christianity and public life
Summary diagram: The challenge of secularism
Chapter 16 Liberation theology and Marx
1 Introduction
2 Marx and liberation theology
3 Marx’s teaching on alienation and exploitation
4 Liberation theology’s use of Marx
5 Liberation theology’s teaching on the ‘preferential option for the poor’
6 Orthodoxy and orthopraxis
Summary diagram: Liberation theology and Marx
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