Key term
AQA A-Level Religious Studies 7062
Arguments for the Existence of God
Evil and Suffering
Religious Language
Self and Life After Death
Religious Experience
Ethical Theories
Issues of Human Life and Death
Meta Ethics
Free Will and Moral Responsibility
Conscience
Bentham and Kant
Issues of Animal Life and Death
Buddhism: Sources of Wisdom and AuthorityBuddhism
Buddhism: Good Conduct and Key Moral PrinciplesBuddhism
Buddhism: Religion, Gender and SexualityBuddhism
Buddhism: Religion and ScienceBuddhism
Buddhism: Religion and SecularisationBuddhism
Buddhism: Religion and Religious PluralismBuddhism
Buddhism: Dialogue with PhilosophyBuddhism
Buddhism: Dialogue with EthicsBuddhism
Buddhism: God and Ultimate RealityBuddhism
Buddhism: Self, Death and the AfterlifeBuddhism
Buddhism: Expression of Religious IdentityBuddhism
Christianity: God and Ultimate RealityChristianity
Christianity: Self, Death and the AfterlifeChristianity
Christianity: Good Conduct and Key Moral PrinciplesChristianity
Christianity: Religion, Gender and SexualityChristianity
Christianity: Religion and ScienceChristianity
Christianity: Religion and SecularisationChristianity
Christianity: Religion and Religious PluralismChristianity
Christianity: Dialogue with PhilosophyChristianity
Christianity: Dialogue with EthicsChristianity
Topic overviewKant, Bentham, Virtue Ethics and Christian EthicsAgape, Consequences and Christian CharacterSanctity of Life, Just War and AnimalsEuthanasia, Capital Punishment and Cloning in ChristianityTheft and Truth-TellingMarriage, Homosexuality and Transgender IssuesGenetic Engineering and WealthTolerance and Freedom of Religious ExpressionFree Will, Moral Responsibility and ConscienceCriticisms of Christian EthicsThe Credibility of Christian Moral AuthorityWhat Christianity Has Given Ethical Studies
Christianity: Sources of Wisdom and AuthorityChristianity
Christianity: Expression of Religious IdentityChristianity
Hinduism: Sources of Wisdom and AuthorityHinduism
Hinduism: Good Conduct and Key Moral PrinciplesHinduism
Hinduism: Religion, Gender and SexualityHinduism
Hinduism: Religion and ScienceHinduism
Hinduism: Religion and SecularisationHinduism
Hinduism: Religion and Religious PluralismHinduism
Hinduism: Dialogue with PhilosophyHinduism
Hinduism: Dialogue with EthicsHinduism
Hinduism: God and Ultimate RealityHinduism
Hinduism: Self, Death and the AfterlifeHinduism
Hinduism: Expression of Religious IdentityHinduism
Islam: God and Ultimate RealityIslam
Islam: Good Conduct and Key Moral PrinciplesIslam
Islam: Religion, Gender and SexualityIslam
Islam: Religion and ScienceIslam
Islam: Religion and SecularisationIslam
Islam: Religion and Religious PluralismIslam
Islam: Dialogue with PhilosophyIslam
Islam: Dialogue with EthicsIslam
Islam: Sources of Wisdom and AuthorityIslam
Islam: Self, Death and the AfterlifeIslam
Islam: Expression of Religious IdentityIslam
Judaism: God and Ultimate RealityJudaism
Judaism: Dialogue with PhilosophyJudaism
Judaism: Religion and ScienceJudaism
Judaism: Religion and SecularisationJudaism
Judaism: Religion and Religious PluralismJudaism
Judaism: Dialogue with EthicsJudaism
Topic overviewKant, Bentham and Jewish EthicsConsequences, Character and Jewish EthicsThe Mitzvot and Tikkun OlamSanctity of Life, Animals, Theft and LyingCapital Punishment, Euthanasia and Cloning in JudaismMarriage, Sexuality and Genetic EngineeringWealth, Tolerance and Religious Freedom in JudaismBechirah Chofshit: Free Will and ConscienceOther Ethical Traditions and Jewish EthicsWhat Ethical Criticism Means for Torah and Halakha
Judaism: Religion, Gender and SexualityJudaism
Judaism: Expression of Religious IdentityJudaism
Judaism: Sources of Wisdom and AuthorityJudaism
Judaism: Self, Death and the AfterlifeJudaism
Judaism: Good Conduct and Key Moral PrinciplesJudaism
Religious Language
- 3 subtopics
- 8 things to know
- Component 1
What Religious Language covers
Whether talk of God is cognitive or non-cognitive, the verification and falsification challenges, and the responses of analogy, symbol and language games.
Where it is assessed
Component 1
Philosophy of religion and ethics, sat by everyone.
Check the AQA specification ↗The 3 subtopics
Each one has its own page.
- Verification, Falsification and Language GamesRecall questions on cognitive and non-cognitive language, the verification principle, Flew's falsification challenge, Hick's Celestial City, Hare's bliks and the paranoid student, and Wittgenstein's language games.Open →
- Tillich's Symbols, Analogy and the Via NegativaRecall questions on Tillich's distinction between signs and symbols and God as the ground of being, Aquinas's analogies of attribution and proportion, and how the Via Negativa preserves divine transcendence.Open →
- Strengths and Weaknesses of Religious Language TheoriesRecall questions on a strength and a weakness of each approach: verification and falsification, eschatological verification, Hare's bliks, language games, Tillich's symbols, Aquinas's analogy and the Via Negativa.Open →
What you need to know
Answer each one before you reveal it.
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Key term
According to Flew, why does religious language fail the falsification test?
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Outline Hare's parable of the paranoid student.
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Define analogy as Aquinas uses it in religious language.
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What is the Via Negativa (apophatic theology)?
Key term
State a weakness of the falsification principle.
Process
Contrast non-cognitive language with the verification and falsification principles.
Process
Explain Aquinas's two analogies and the point of the via negativa.
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Questions from this topic
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- 1
What is cognitive religious language?
Model answer
Religious language that makes factual claims about reality that can be assessed as true or false.
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How does non-cognitive religious language differ from cognitive religious language?
Model answer
Non-cognitive religious language expresses attitudes, emotions, or commitments rather than making truth claims about objective reality.
- 3
State the verification principle.
Model answer
A statement is only meaningful if it can be verified empirically or is true by definition (analytic).
- 4
How does the verification principle challenge the meaningfulness of religious language?
Model answer
It claims that statements about God cannot be empirically verified and are therefore meaningless.
- 5
What is Flew's falsification principle?
Model answer
A statement is only meaningful if there is something that could count against it or prove it false.
- 6
According to Flew, why does religious language fail the falsification test?
Model answer
Religious believers qualify their claims so much that nothing could ever count against them, making religious statements meaningless.
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Religious Language revision questions
- What does Religious Language cover in AQA A-Level Religious Studies?
- 3 subtopics: verification, falsification and language games, tillich's symbols, analogy and the via negativa and strengths and weaknesses of religious language theories. Each one has its own page with questions and model answers.
- How is Religious Language organised?
- By the AQA 7062 specification, subtopic by subtopic, so it matches the order you are taught it in.
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