A Level Religious Studies OCR

Archive articles sorted by unit headings for OCR's Advanced Subsidiary (AS) GCE in Religious Studies and Advanced GCE (A level) in Religious Studies:

• Philosophy of Religion
• The Existence of God
• Challenges to Religious Belief
• Revelation
• Body and Soul

• Religious Ethics
• Sex and Relationships
• Environmental Ethics
• War, Peace and justice
• Free will and determinism
• Ethical Theory
• Practical Ethics

• Jewish Scriptures

• New Testament

• Developments in Christian Thought
• Black Theology in North America
• Liberation Theology
• Feminist Theology
• Christianity in a Multi-Faith Society

• Eastern Religions
  • Buddhism
  • Hinduism

• Islam

• Judaism

Philosophy of Religion

• The challenge of heaven
• The storm of the Spirit
• My life with Christ
• Show atheists the Trinity
• Myra: the paper Devil
• Where was God on 11 September?
• U-turn on human rights
• The Lazarus light
• What is original sin?
• My life with Christ
• God's media image
• How Pentecost changed my life
• Slow up on saint-making
• The silence of the soul

• The Existence of God
• The challenge of heaven
• The storm of the Spirit
• My life with Christ

• Challenges to Religious Belief
• Myra: the paper Devil
• Where was God on 11 September?

• Revelation
• What Fatima means
• The challenge of heaven

• Body and Soul
• Together in the darkness - Sheila Cassidy
• A blessing before death - Mian Ridge
• How the Resurrection makes sense
• Body and soul

Religious Ethics

• A blessing before death
• The pressures on the planet
• It's time we shared
• The daughter I lost and found
• Proud to be proud
• Once in Baghdad, what then?
• Weep for Jerusalem
• A violent end to a violent chapter
• The IRA turns the page
• The IRA's politicians
• Scientists playing God
• These rays of light

• Free Will and Determinism
• Swap duty for delight

• Sex and Relationships
• Catholic Ethicists on HIV/AIDS Prevention - book review
• Sexual Chemistry: a history of the contraceptive pill - book review
• Sexuality in the seminary
• Fall-out from the sex bomb
• Body and soul
• How natural is NFP?
• Abortion? No thanks
• Take your partners and sign

• Environmental Ethics
• Why Dives needs Lazarus
• Don't let Bush bully us
• Global warming is a global warning
• Respect for the Earth
• Global winners, global losers
• Fruits of science
• All together to save the planet
• Seeds of hope
• Living lightly on the earth

• War, Peace and Justice
• A test of wisdom for President Bush - Michael Quinlan
• It’s too soon for war - Richard Harries
• Triangles of courage - Alexandra Hudson
• Once in Baghdad, what then? - Hazhir Teimourian
• Weep for Jerusalem - Nicholas Jubber
• A violent end to a violent chapter - Trevor Mostyn
• The IRA turns the page - John Hume
• The IRA's politicians - Brian Feeney
• The West, the world and the war on terror - Anatol Lieven
• Will the Land of the Free defend freedom? - Conor Gearty
• The man in Pakistan's hot seat - Rory McCarthy
• What Muslim leaders can do for the world - Sayyed Nadeem Kazmi
• Countdown to a bloodbath - Adrian Hastings
• Can the West and Islam live together? - Scott Thomas
• Auschwitz: the perversion of humanity

Ethical Theory

• Utilitarianism
• Humility

Practical Ethics

• Medical Ethics
• A blessing before death
• Blinded by science
• Handle this genome with care
• Abortion? No thanks
• Scientists playing God

Jewish Scriptures

• The Bible after the Shoah
• The Holocaust: purifying the memories
• Jews revisit Jesus
• Why convert the saved?

New Testament

• The Bible after the Shoah
• The challenge of heaven
• How Pentecost changed my life
• How the Resurrection makes sense
• Unfinished business

Developments in Christian Thought

• Heresy and women priests
• It won't wash with women
• Women priests: the unfinished story
• My faith in women
• When women were deacons
• Women raise their voices
• Mary as Everywoman
• A priest called Ludmila
• We need a revolution
• Liberating Mary
• The many sides of John Paul II
• Proud to be proud
• The cult that frightens the Communists
• The alliance that wasn't
• What lies ahead for Rome and Moscow?
• God's little feather
• Which way to read the Bible?
• Did Christ laugh?
• Christians and Jews: redeeming the past
• The sexual politics we need
• A dialogue of head and heart
• True and false Madonnas
• The pull of God in a godless age

• Black Theology in North America
• Black gold in Alabama

• Liberation Theology
• The counter-revolution
• What chance a black pope?
• Brazil's moral giant
• The hand of Opus Dei in El Salvador
• Whose man in Havana?
• The curtain rises in Havana

• Feminist Theology
• Mary as Everywoman
• True and false Madonnas
• The magnet of Alpha

• Christianity in a Multi-Faith Society
• Why convert the saved?
• Break the chains and pray together
• ‘The whole truth is only found together’
• No new dogmas please
  

Eastern Religions

• Buddhism
• Torture in Tibet
• Light from the Buddha
• Under the Bodhi tree

• Hinduism
• Gandhi: behind the icon - No plaster saint
• An explosion of hatred in Asia
• The priest and the swami

Islam

• Islam’s turbulent critic
• Holy wars against the modern world
• Review of Beyond Belief: Islamic excursions among the converted people, by V.S. Naipaul
• The Islamic bogeyman
• Can the West and Islam live together?
• Islam's televangelist
• Inside the mind of militant Islam
• Holy wars against the modern world
• The price of Israel

Judaism

• Christians and Jews: redeeming the past
• Jews revisit Jesus
• A dialogue of head and heart
• Gefilte fish at Easter
• Unfinished business
• The price of Israel
• These rays of light

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