YEAR 2

From 2018, A level RS students in England will take a terminal exam that covers AS and Year 2 topics. Below are the subjects that will be taught in the second year (on this site, we will have resources for Christianity, although you may be studying a different religion.)

The text books for Christianity and Philosophy for Year 2 are now available, and the Ethics textbook is due out soon.

RELIGION

1. Religious figures and sacred texts D-F

2. Significant social developments in religious thought

3. Significant historical developments in religious thought

4. Religious practices that shape religious identity D-F

 

PHILOSOPHY

1. Challenges to religious belief - religious belief as a product of the human mind

2. Religious experience D-F

3. Religious language A-C

4. Religious language D-F

 

ETHICS

1. Meta-ethics - Naturalism, Intuitionism, Emotivism

2. Finnis' Natural Law and Hoose's Proportionalism applied to immigration and capital punishment

3. Determinism

4. Free Will

 

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