Part ‘a’ and ‘b’ 5 weeks = 25 lessons
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Philosophy module 2771 (A2)
Part ‘c’ 2 weeks = 10 lessons
Part ‘a’ and ‘b’ 7 weeks = 35 lessons
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Ethics module 2772 (A2)
Parts ‘c’ and ‘d’ 9 weeks = 45 lessons
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Connections in Religious
Studies (Route A)
7 weeks = 35 lessons
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5 weeks = 25 lessons
Module 2772 (5.13)
Parts ‘a’ & ‘b’
(Course taught in three lessons a
week)
The views of ‘hard’ determinism
The views of ‘soft’ determinism
The views of libertarians
How Christianity contributes to debates about human free will and moral responsibility.
(Course taught in two lessons a week)
Introduction to Conscience
Aquinas – the God-given conscience
Joseph Butler – the innate conscience
Sigmund Freud – the acquired conscience
John Newman and Jean Piaget – foundational kinds of knowledge are neither given innately nor directly derived from experience. The alternative to classical rationalism and empiricism.
Module 2771 (5.12)
Parts ‘c’
(Course taught in three lessons a week)
The problem of religious language
An introduction to Logical Positivism
The verification principle
The verification principle continued
The falsification principle
The falsification principle continued
(Course taught in two lessons a week)
The Via negativa
Religious language as analogy
Religious language as symbol
Religious language as myth
Philosophy of
Religion 2 (A2)
Module 2771 (5.12)
Part ‘a’
(Course taught in two lessons a week)
Lesson 1
Plato’s writings on the body/soul distinction
John Hick’s writings on the body/soul distinction
Reductionism including views of Richard Dawkins
Ryle’s and Descartes’ views on the body/soul distinction
Resurrection as one view of life after death
Rebirth
The writings of Swinburne and Irenaeus
Peter Vardy’s writings on rebirth and the problem of evil
The nature of disembodied existence
The Christian idea of heaven
The Christian idea of heaven continued
The Christian idea of hell
The Christian idea of hell
The Christian idea of hell continued
Philosophy of
Religion 2 (A2)
Module 2771 (5.12)
Part ‘b’
(Courses taught in three lessons a week)
Categories of religious experience
The numinous (Otto)
Religious conversion
Corporate religious experience (Case study: Toronto Blessing)
An introduction to miracles
Defining miracles
David Hume and miracles
Aquinas and miracles
Maurice Wiles and miracles
The problem of evil and miracles
Revelation
Divine inspiration – theological meaning
Scripture as Word of God
Scripture as containing the Word of God
Scripture becoming the Word of God
Textual exercise
Summary
Module 2772 (5.13)
Parts ‘cii’ & ‘d’
The Contribution of Christian ethics and other Ethical
Theories to Practical Ethical Issues
(Course taught in three lessons a week)
Environmental ethics
Ethical theory applied to this issue
Christian ethics applied to this issue
Christian ethics applied to the sanctity of life, abortion and euthanasia
The ethics of sex and relationships
Christian ethics applied to this issue
Other ethical theory applied to this issue
Religious Ethics 2
(A2)
Module 2772 (5.13)
Part ‘ci’
(Course taught in two lessons a week)
The Divine Command Theory
The ethics of love
Principle-based ethics
Fulfilling God’s purpose
The relationship between God and man
The relationship between humankind
Christian ethics as deontological and teleological
Genetics, embryology, the right to a child and Christian ethics
Connections in
Religious Studies (A2)
Module 2791 (5.22)
Route A
The conscience or
sense of moral responsibility as possible evidence for the existence of God.
(Course taught in two lessons a week)
Re-cap A2 idea of conscience
Lesson 2 & 3
C.S. Lewis and Friedrich Nietzsche
Lesson 4
Mind-mapping conscience-God
Lesson 5
The concept of
Free Will and Determinism in relation to the nature of an omniscient God
Implications of an omniscient, timeless and spaceless God
Mind-mapping around ‘omniscience’
Assessment
(Course taught in three lessons a week)
Re-cap the Problem of Evil and Free Will
Leibniz – the two kinds of liberty
Plantinga – emphasise the moral aspect of the free will defence
Mind-maps
Assessment
Re-cap Psychology
Mind map
Recap Sociology
Mind map
Assessment
Re-cap Meta-ethics
Re-cap Logical Positivism
Mind map
Assessment