NOTE : THESE QUESTIONS ARE BASED ON THE COURSE NOTES FOR THIS TOPIC THAT CAN BE FOUND HERE, HERE, HERE AND HERE. UNUSUALLY, THIS PARTICULAR TEST WILL ALSO INTRODUCE QUITE A LOT OF NEW INFORMATION THAT IT MAY BE USEFUL TO REFER TO IN AN EXAMINATION ANSWER, ESPECIALLY WITH RESPECT TO THE 30 MARK ‘EVALUATE’ QUESTIONS […]
From the Paper 1 syllabus: 5.1 Context to critiques of religious belief and points for discussion a) Respective strengths and weaknesses of religious beliefs. b) Alternative explanations, issues of probability and postmodern interpretations of religion. NOTE 1: the following answer does NOT include discussions of probability or postmodern interpretations of religion. NOTE 2 :
Exemplar answer for Edexcel Paper 1 (Philosophy of Religion) Read More »
This should hopefully save you from having to wade through the 20 page summary in one of the older Edexcel textbooks In an important survey article on developments in philosophical theology and the philosophy of religion, Merold Westphal notes how different philosophers have tried to distinguish the ‘kernel’ or essence of religion from the ‘husk’