Socrates is believed to have said,
“the unexamined life is not worth living!”

GCSE grade 5 in English
GCSE grade 5 in RE

Year 12
Philosophy of Religion:

Arguments for the existence of God: The Design Argument, The Ontological Argument and The Cosmological Argument.

Evil and Suffering 

Religious Experience 

Ethics and Religion:

Normative Ethical Theories: Natural Moral Law, Situation Ethics and Aristotle’s Virtue Ethics 

Application of Ethical Theories: Medical Ethics 

Christianity

In component 2 of the specification: Study of the Christian Religion, this section has five parts that will be divided between both the Ethics teacher and the Philosophy of Religion teacher. They include:
Sources of wisdom and authority;
God;
Self, death and afterlife;
Good conduct and key moral principles;
Expression of religious identity.

When studying these sections students will develop understanding on the Philosophy and Ethics units as the specification makes an organic link between its three parts: Christianity, Philosophy of religion and Ethics within the Dialogues section.

Year 13
Philosophy of Religion:
Religious Language
Miracles 
Self, death and afterlife 

Ethics and Religion:
Introduction to Meta-ethics 
Free will and moral responsibility 
Conscience
Bentham and Kant 

Christianity and Dialogues:
In this section students will explore a range of areas that link both moral issues and Christian teachings. Students will explore Christian teachings on these areas and implement philosophical and ethical arguments/teachings to support or criticise. The areas students study are:
Christianity, gender and sexuality;
Christianity and science;
Christianity and the challenge of secularisation;
Christianity, migration and religious pluralism;
Dialogues between Christianity and Philosophy;
Dialogues between Christianity and Ethics.