A level

[[==Scholars ==[[

 1. Plato: ( 423 - 347 BCE) modules = Ancient Greek influences, mind, body, soul  2. Aristotle: (384 - 322 BCE ) modules= Ancient Greek influences, mind, body, soul  3. Jesus ( 1 - 100 CE) modules= founder of Christianity  4. Irenaeus ( 130-202 ) modules= problem of evil, death and afterlife  5. Augustine: ( 350-430 CE ) modules= problem of evil, human nature, conscience, sexual ethics, death and afterlife, attributes of golf  6. Boethius: ( 475-524 CE) modules= attributes of god  7. Anselm: ( 1033-1109 CE) modules= attributes of god and ONTOLOGICAL ARGUMENT  8. Thomas Aquinas: ( 1225-1274 CE ) modules= cosmological argument> cause and effect chains makes up universe so the universe needs a cause and the first cause that needs no cause itself is god/God must be an uncaused cause that God is the only thing that exists that is exempt from having a cause, TELEOLOGICAL ARGUMENT, sexual ethics, death/afterlife, natural law theory, knowledge of god  9. John calvin : (1509-1564 CE ) modules= knowledge of god, death/afterlife

  1. Descartes : (1596-1650 CE) modules= mind, body, soul, attributes of god
  2. Leibniz: ( 1650-1710 CE) modules= gods existences, only logical explanation
  3. Hume: ( 1711-1776 CE) modules= Cosmological Argument, Death and Afterlife, Religious Experience, Religious Language> challenges the cosmological argument, the teleological argument and the possibility of miracles > he explained how for instance an analogy with a house, even if the world has a designer, the faulty design of the world suggests an imperfect designer, very different to omnipotent and benevolent God envisaged by the Christians. Evil and suffering could be taken to be examples of bad design
  4. Kant: ( 1724- 1804 CE) modules= KANTIAN ETHICS
  5. William Paley: ( 1743- 1805) modules= gods existence> watch theory, everything designed for reason/ evidence of design all complex so need a complex designer)
  6. Jeremy Bentham: ( 1748-1832 CE ) modules= “ greatest happiness for greatest number”, utilitarianism
  7. J.S. Mill: (1806-1873 CE) modules = “reduce harm” , utilitarianism
  8. Karl Marx: ( 1818-1883 CE) modules= liberation theology
  9. William James: ( 1842-1910 CE) modules= religious experience, wrote a book on how we feel a sense of awe in a religious building
  10. Sigmund Freud: (1856-1939 CE) modules = religious experience, conscience, he views that the belief in god is wishful thinking, just humans way to have a father figure
  11. Tillich: ( 1886- 1965 CE) modules = Christin moral principle, situation ethics
  12. Karl Barth: (1886-1968 CE) modules= pluralism, death and afterlife, knowledge of god
  13. Wittgenstein: (1889-1951 CE) modules= religious language
  14. Karl Rahner: (1904-1984) modules= pluralism, he believed in idea of anonymous Christian, people who are not christian could still be saved through christian by acting how Christians act, with their decisions and the way they act
  15. Joseph Fletcher: (1905- 1991 CE) modules= situation ethics
  16. Bonhoeffer: (1906-1945 CE) modules= moral action
  17. A.J. Ayer : (1910- 1989 CE) modules = religious language eg: Unless logical or empirical verification is possible, statements like "God exists" or "charity is good" are not true or untrue but meaningless>>may thus be excluded or ignored. Religious language in particular is unverifiable = nonsense.
  18. Mary Daly: (1928-2010 ) = feminism and theology
  19. Swinburne: (1934) modules= religious experience, attributes of god
  20. Rosemary Radford Ruether : (1936) modules= feminism
  21. Richard Dawkins: (1941) modules= mind, body, soul, after life, Augustine on human nature, knowledge of god > does not exist, is an atheist believes that in science over religion and that the belief in a personal god is delusion
  22. Peter Singer : (1946) modules= utilitarianism
  23. John Hick: ( 1992-2012) modules= pluralism> life can be experienced religiously or non religiously, death and after life, jesus> Hick believed that historical Jesus did not teach or apparently believe that he was God, or God the Son, Second Person of a Holy Trinity, incarnate, or the son of God in a unique sense."

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