EDEXCEL SPECIFICATION
This section should be based on the study of ONE religion only.
The following are areas you need to cover:
How religious upbringing in a family or community of ONE religion can lead to or support belief in God. The nature of religious experience as seen in the NUMINOUS, CONVERSION, MIRACLES, PRAYER, and how these may lead to or support belief in God.
How the appearance of the world (DESIGN and CAUSATION) may lead to or support belief in God. How the search for meaning and purpose in life may lead to or support belief in God. How the presence of religion in the world may lead to or support belief in God.
How non-religious explanations of the world and of miracles may lead to or support AGNOSTICISM or ATHEISM. How unanswered prayers and the existence of evil and suffering (including MORAL EVIL and NATURAL EVIL) may lead people to question or reject belief in God.
Why, the existence of evil and suffering raises problems for people who believe in God as OMNIPOTENT, BENEVOLENT and OMNISCIENT. How the followers of ONE religion respond to this problem.
This section deals with why people may or may not belief in God. What are the reasons?. Watch the video clip above to pick up the key words used in this unit.