Showing posts with label Immortality and Miracles. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Immortality and Miracles. Show all posts

Tuesday, 19 May 2015

End of Year Exam topics for revision

The first of your exam is going to be multiple choice covering subjects from this year. Then a series of short answer questions covering the following: Things Science can't explain : Immortality and miracles covering the following aspects: 

  • Considerations the meaning of death, and the afterlife
  • Reasonableness of such belief, as well as the problems created by it. 
  • Ideas of what would count as immortality – reincarnation, resurrection, rebirth, a legacy, as a memory of others; 
  • The problems associated with any of these options of immortality; 
  • Evidence of immortality, such as scriptural accounts, ghost experience, channeling, Near Death Experience and revelation;
  • Evidence against immortality, such as lack of proof, science, atheism; 
  • The concept (idea) of dualism, and the mind/body/soul.
  • The understanding of what do we mean by miracles.
  • If God work in the world through miracles and ideas about God;
  • One example of miracles from holy scripture;
  • The power of miracles in revealing God, and the qualities of God, such as benevolence, omnipotence, immanence (God intervening in this world)
You will be marked on your ability to: use good English, organise information clearly and use specialist vocabulary where appropriate. In some questions you have to demonstrate you have considered more than one point of view.