A Level Religious Studies inc Exams

AQA 7062

First Component

Section A: The Philosophy of Religion

• Arguments for the existence of God
• Evil and suffering
• Religious experience
• Religious language
• Miracles
• Self and life after death

Section B: Ethics and Religion

• Ethical theories
• Issues of human life and death
• Issues of animal life and death
• Introduction to meta-ethics
• Free will and moral responsibility
• Conscience
• Bentham and Kant
• For the second component, in relation to Christianity, there are three sections

Second Component

Section A: Study of Religion

• The sources of wisdom and authority
• God and ultimate reality
• Self, death and the afterlife
• Good conduct and key moral principles
• Expressions of religious identity
• Religion, gender and sexuality
• Religion and science
• Religion and secularisation
• Religion and religious pluralism

Section B: The Dialogue between Philosophy of Religion and Religion

• How religion is influenced by, and has an influence on, philosophy of religion in relation to the issues studied

Section C: The Dialogue between Ethical Studies and Religion

• How religion is influenced by, and has an influence on, ethical studies in relation to the issues studied.