Ryton Students - Departments – Subject
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Unit 1: The Existence of God. How do we prove things? Creation, the Big Bang Theory, the design Argument and the Theory of Evolution. Religious Experience 1. Communicating with God through prayer, meditation and worship. Religious Experience 2. God in nature, experiencing a conversion. A miraculous event. Does Religious Experience prove God’s existence? Suffering and Evil 1 and 2. Causes of suffering and evil. Explanations and Free Will. Psychological reasons, test of faith and God’s plan? Unit 2: The Nature of God. What is God like? Ancient Egyptian Gods, Monotheism and Polytheism. Is God impersonal or personal, immanent or transcendent? General Revelation. Religious writings, seeing God in other people, reason, conscience and conviction. Special Revelation. Dreams, miracles, visions and worship. Sacred texts and How God may be known. Unit 3: Morality. What are morals? Absolute and relative moral values. How do we learn? Utilitarianism and situation ethics. Sources of moral authority. Religious Texts. Morality. Religious leaders, culture and upbringing, reason, conscience and values. Liberation theology. Sources of Moral Authority. Unit 4: Human Rights and Responsibilities. Sanctity and quality of life. The law on abortion. Arguments supporting abortion and arguments against abortion. Unit 5: Human Rights and Responsibilities. What is marriage? Sex before marriage, sex outside of marriage and sex within marriage. Choice of marriage partner. Differences between arranged and love marriage. Marriage and divorce. Reasons for divorce. Unit 6: Human Rights and responsibilities. Prejudice and discrimination. Forms and causes of racial prejudice & genocide. Religious teachings. Discrimination against women and the ordination of women. Complete ‘Do you understand about the issues surrounding prejudice and discrimination?’ Unit 7: Global Issues. World Poverty. What is poverty? Hunger, disease and population explosion. Caring for the poor and religious teachings. Perspectives on World Poverty. Unit 8: Global Issues. War and Peace Unit 9: Global Issues. The environment. Exam Exploration
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Unit 10: The nature of truth and spirituality. Scientific truth, historical truth, moral truth and spiritual truth. Claims to truth. Expressing spirituality, individual commitment, faith communities and voluntary organisations. Unit 11: Matters of life. When does life begin? Human fertilisation and IVF. Fertility treatment, embryology and cloning. Unit 12: Matters of death. When does life end? Euthanasia. Different types of euthanasia. Attitudes to euthanasia. Arguments for and against euthanasia. Death and care. The hospice movement, suicide and care of the sick and elderly. Religious attitudes to matters of life and death. Unit 13: Drug abuse. Why do people take drugs? Legal drugs. Illegal drugs and the effects they cause. Attitudes to drugs. And religious perspectives. Complete ‘Do you understand religious attitudes to drug abuse?’ Unit 14: Media and technology. Media and society. Benefits of the media. Concerns about the media. Control of the media. Control over broadcasting and newspapers. Control on films and videos. Freedom of the media. Religion and the media. Unit 15: Crime and Punishment. The causes of crime. Criminal responsibility. Solutions to crime. Types of punishment. The five aims of punishment. What works? Alternatives to prison. Capital punishment. Arguments for and against capital punishment. Punishment. Revision,
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exam review. Unit 16: Rich and Poor in Society. Christian attitudes to wealth. Helping the less fortunate. Government action to fight poverty. Unemployment. Homelessness. The national lottery. Christian attitudes to gambling. Revision Study
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