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OCR Religious Studies is organised here around Philosophy of Religion, Religion and Ethics, and Developments in Christian Thought. This site is set up for Christianity.
Philosophy of Religion
Ancient influences, soul/mind/body, arguments for God, religious experience, evil, attributes of God and religious language.
Religion and Ethics
Normative theories, applied ethics, ethical language, conscience, sexual ethics and the influence of religious belief.
Developments in Christian Thought
Augustine, death and afterlife, knowledge of God, Jesus, moral action, gender, secularism, liberation theology and pluralism.
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Religious Pluralism and Society
The central question is how Christians should respond to other faiths in contemporary multi-faith societies: dialogue, mission, conversion, cooperation, and the limits of truth-claim compromise.
Core issueCan Christians respect other faiths while maintaining Christ as uniquely salvific?
PracticeInter-faith dialogue, Scriptural Reasoning, community action and mission.
AO2 tensionSocial cohesion versus relativising Christian truth claims.
Essay aim: do not just describe dialogue. Judge whether it genuinely improves society, whether it weakens Christianity, and whether mission can be honest without becoming coercive.
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