RE A-level Essay Guidance

Subject: Religious Education / Philosophy
Level: Secondary
Age Group: 16 - 18
Order Number: 14012

This new essay guidance source gives students confidence in essay writing by explaining how to write an A-level essay and providing essay plans for some well-known religious questions. The notes can be used in a variety of ways and can be given to students after an essay has been marked and returned to them, to help them build up a file of high quality material.

Contents include:

• How to write a Religious Studies essay.
• Essay plans on:
• Outline and discuss the proofs for the existence of God.
• Assess and compare the effectiveness of the Ontological, Cosmological and Teleological arguments for the existence of God.
• To what extent can religious statements be verified?
• To what extent does it make sense to say 'God is Dead'?
• How far does it make sense to describe God as being both immanent and transcendent?
• Consider the idea that religious experience has more to do with wish fulfilment than the intervention of God.
• Implicit within the concept of faith is the lack of any real knowledge. Do you agree?
• What does religious worship achieve?
• God would not want his creation to suffer, therefore there is no God. Discuss this statement.
• To what extent is reincarnation of the soul based on rational philosophy?