RELIGIOUS STUDIES, UNIT 1 Catholic Content Audit

GCE AS/A LEVEL

CONTENTS

PART A: CATHOLIC - CORE BELIEFS, TEACHINGS AND PRACTICES 3

Beliefs 3

God 3

Creation 4

Practices 5

Morality 5

Catholic Church 6

PART B: PHILOSOPHICAL THEMES, CONTENT FROM CATHOLIC AND NON-RELIGIOUS PERSPECTIVES 8

Theme 1: Issues of Life and Death 8

The World 8

The origin and value of human life 9

Beliefs about death and the afterlife 10

Theme 2: Issues of Good and Evil 11

Crime and punishment 11

Forgiveness 12

Good, Evil and Suffering 12

Auditor’s notes

• Where there is no content in either textbook, the cells of the table are shaded orange to enable the board to prioritise production of resources in these areas • Non-religious content is shaded grey • Where there is content that is not specific enough to the syllabus, the text colour is red • Resources on ‘living the Mass’ and the role of local Catholic parish churches should be prioritised as these areas are under-resourced in the existing textbooks

Angela Hill, October 2017

PART A: CATHOLIC - CORE BELIEFS, TEACHINGS AND PRACTICES

PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS DOCUMENT AUDITS THE CATHOLIC CONTENT ONLY. HOWEVER, CANDIDATES MUST ALSO STUDY THE CORE BELIEFS, TEACHINGS AND PRACTICES OF JUDAISM. THIS CONTENT CAN BE FOUND IN THE WJEC HODDER TEXTBOOK.

Beliefs

Areas of Hodder WJEC Hodder Eduqas Specific Content Study Unit 1 Route B

God Creator ex nihilo (St. Augustine's pp.2-3 pp.2-3 Confessions Xll, 7) and sustainer. creator/sustainer Omnipotence, omnibenevolence, No content on omniscience, omnipresence p.15 – ex nihilo – no omniscient or ref to Augustine omnipresent

pp. 4-6 – omni-terms p.24 Omnipotent and omnibenevolent (from creation)

Trinity: The three aspects of one pp.16-20 pp.80-83 God - Father (Luke 15:11-32), Son pp.87-88 - John (John 1:1-3, 14), Holy Spirit (John No ref to Augustine’s 14:25-26, Galatians 5:22-23). St. De Trinitate Augustine's De Trinitate 8.10

Jesus as Messiah (Matthew 16:13- pp.20-22 p.160 – Jesus and 17), Saviour, Word, the salvation Incarnation (John 1:1-3, 14), salvation and atonement (John 3:16, 14:6)67

Jesus’ birth, crucifixion, pp.23-26 p.163 – Crucifixion resurrection and ascension (key and Ascension elements of the accounts of his birth, death, resurrection and p.86 – Incarnation, ascension) NOT birth account(s)in the context of the theme of Good and Evil

Creation Beliefs and teachings on Creation pp.9-12 pp.3-6 from the Genesis accounts (Genesis 1-3)

Nature of Humanity: image of God pp.12-16 pp.13-16 (’imago Dei’), soul, moral, free will, rational, creative, fallen, Original Sin (Genesis 1-3, esp. Genesis 1:26-28 and 2:15-17)

Teachings of Thomas Aquinas on NO CONTENT NO CONTENT human nature as essentially good

Practices

Areas of Specific Content Hodder WJEC Hodder Eduqas Route B Study Unit 1

Morality Teachings of Jesus p.29 – Matt. 7 only pp.92 – focus is on (Matthew 7:13-14, Jesus as a source of Matthew 25:31-46) moral authority/ Beattitudes, Matt. 5 No refs to Matt. 7:13-14, Matt.25:31-46

Love / agapé (Luke 10:25- p.30 NO CONTENT 37; John 13:34-35)

Forgiveness (Matthew 6:5- p.31 pp.155 – forgiveness, 13, Matthew 18:21-22; No ref to Sacrament including: Luke 23:34; Matthew 5:43- of Reconciliation Matthew 6:5-13, 44), including the Matthew 18:21-22 Sacrament of Reconciliation But not Luke 23:34; Matthew 5:43-44),

p.172 - Sacrament of Reconciliation – very brief reference in the context of features of a church (confessionals)

pp.177-179 – overview of sacraments – specific ref to Reconciliation as ‘Penance (confession) bottom of 178, onto 179

Treasures on earth/in p.32 NO CONTENT Heaven (Matthew 6:19-21; Luke 16:19-31)

Divine p.28 p.152-153 command/absolutist and situational/relativist approaches to ethical decision making

Catholic Role of the local, Catholic NO CONTENT NO CONTENT Church parish church pp.165-170 focus on the nature of the Church, but present theological perspectives

Main features of Catholic p.33 - (bottom) very pp.177-179 – overview worship: the Mass brief and basic of sacraments – specific (including the Sacrament reference to Catholic ref to Reconciliation as of Eucharist) worship ‘Penance (confession) p.40 (bottom) brief ref bottom of 178, onto to transubstantiation. 179

p.180-181

The practice of offering NO CONTENT p.146 Masses for the dead p.142 – brief reference to prayers of intercession for the dead, but not offering Masses

Social and community p.43 some pp.46-50 – section on functions: ‘living the Mass’ information, but no Loving and serving in content specific to Catholic communities in Catholic syllabus, Britain and elsewhere. notably ‘living the Does not refer Mass’.p.47 specifically to ‘living the Mass’

Mission, evangelisation, NO CONTENT pp.182-185 church growth (Matthew 28:16-20; Galatians 3:28, Pope Francis' Evangelii Gaudium 15, 48-49, 197- 198, 264-265

Catholic groups working p.45 explanation of pp.55-60 for social justice: CARJ, social justice, but no CAFOD and St. Vincent de content specific to Paul Society (Gaudium et Catholic syllabus. Spes 78 and 29

Catholic Catholic groups working p.47-48 – Inter-faith pp.50-51 – generic Church for reconciliation through Wales, Christian- passage inter-faith dialogue: The Muslim Forum, No content on The Inter-faith Council for Council of Christians Inter-faith Council for Wales, Christian-Muslim and Jews only Wales, Christian-Muslim Forum, Council of Forum, Council of Christians and Jews, No content on Christians and Jews, Interreligious Advisers to Interreligious Advisers Interreligious Advisers the Catholic Bishops' to the Catholic to the Catholic Bishops' Conference Bishops' Conference Conference

Persecution of Christians p.48 NO CONTENT in the modern world (Matthew 10:22)

PART B: PHILOSOPHICAL THEMES CONTENT FROM CATHOLIC AND NON-RELIGIOUS PERSPECTIVES

PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS DOCUMENT AUDITS THE CATHOLIC CONTENT ONLY. HOWEVER, THESE TWO PHILOSOPHICAL THEMES MUST ALSO BE STUDIED FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF JUDAISM. THE JUDAISM CONTENT IS COMMON TO ALL LEARNERS AND CAN BE FOUND IN THE WJEC HODDER TEXT BOOK.

Theme 1: Issues of Life and Death

Areas of Specific Content Hodder WJEC Unit 1 Hodder Eduqas Route B Study

The World The understanding of the pp.12-16 pp.26-30 Catholic Church on Generic Christian Creation and stewardship content with no ref to (Genesis 1-3, Matthew Laudato Si 13 6:25-34, Laudato Si 13)

The relationship between NO CONTENT pp.9-11 Catholic views, other Christian views and non- religious views of creation and the extent to which they conflict (Pope John- Paul ll's Message to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences: On Evolution, 1996, paragraphs 3 and 4)

The work of CAFOD to NO CONTENT pp.55-60 promote global citizenship

Non-religious views on the pp.158-160 pp.9-11 creation of the universe: p.165 'Big-Bang theory' (Stephen Hawking) 'Blind' Evolution versus 'Planned' Evolution (Charles Darwin and Richard Dawkins)

Non-religious views on p.170 pp.30-31 stewardship, social and community responsibility, sustainability; ‘Humanists for a Better World'

The origin The understanding of the p.173 generic Christian pp.13-21 and value Catholic Church on the content, no refs to fertilisation/abortion of human sanctity of human life, Catholic teachings. life from fertilisation to its pp.114-119 – dying and natural end (Matthew euthanasia 19:18) and its teaching on abortion (Catechism of the Catholic Church 2270), including issues surrounding assisted dying and palliative care, Evangelium Vitae and 65

Local 'Choose NO CONTENT NO CONTENT Life'/'Society for the Protection of the Unborn Child'

The work of local Catholic NO CONTENT p.115 – brief passage hospices and the about hospices, but not significance of the local or specifically Sacrament of the Sick Catholic

pp.177-179 – overview of sacraments – specific ref to Sacrament of the Sick as ‘Anointing of the Sick on p.179

Non-religious views on p.174 pp.31 Singer and quality of life over sanctity Speciesism, but not in of life in relation to relation to abortion and abortion and euthanasia euthanasia (the views of Peter Singer)

'Right to Choose', 'Dignity p.180 pp.117-118 – Humanist in Dying' (euthanasia) views

emphasis on life before p.185 death rather than afterlife

situationist/relativist p.202 – too brief NO SPECIFIC CONTENT approach rather than doctrinal or absolutist

Beliefs Catholic beliefs about life p.188 – the soul – pp.124-126 about after death, including the generic Christian no refs to the death and soul, judgement, heaven, content. Catechism the hell and purgatory No reference to afterlife (Catechism of the Catholic Purgatory/Catechism Church 1020-1023, 1030, 1033)

How Catholic funerals NO CONTENT p.137 – Music and the reflect beliefs about the funeral rite after-life (Catechism of the p.140 (bottom)-142 Catholic Church 1684- 1690) (Catechism of the Catholic Church 1684- 1690)

Humanist funerals in Wales p.198 NO CONTENT as reflections of beliefs about death as the end of life

Theme 2: Issues of Good and Evil

Hodder WJEC Hodder Eduqas Areas of Study Specific Content Unit 1 Route B

Crime and What makes an act 'wrong'? pp.201-202 NO CONTENT punishment Religious and ethical responses: p.202 – basic p.152 relative and absolute morality, content, lacking Natural Law and conscience, refs to Natural pp.94-95 – virtues, sin Law and Conscience/Natur conscience, al Law as a source virtues, sin of moral authority

Catholic beliefs and attitudes pp.204-207 pp.153-154 about the causes of crime and the aims of punishment: justice, retribution, deterrence and reformation

The treatment of criminals and p.209-211 NO CONTENT the work of prison reformers and Catholic spec will prison chaplains probably need more specific ref to Catholic chaplains

Catholic responses to the Death pp.212-214 – pp.156-159 – Penalty, including interpretations brief, not specific called ‘capital of Christian teaching: Exodus to Biblical punishment, not 20:13, Matthew 5:38-39, 43-47 references death penalty, not including Matthew 5:43-47

The response of the Catholic p.214 – brief and pp.153-157 Church to crime and punishment, general reference (Evangelium Vitae including capital punishment and Pope John Paul II’s 56 near bottom reformation; Pope John Paul ll's Gospel of Life of p.156) Evangelium Vitae 56

Forgiveness Peace and conflict: Just War p.220 – general NO CONTENT Theory. Pacifism and info on peace and Conscientious Objectors conflict

No content on Conscientious Objectors

Responses to suffering and evil, p.234 – evil p.155 - including forgiveness p.238 - suffering forgiveness pp.223-225 - forgiveness

Christian teachings about pp.223-225 p.155 forgiveness, including No ref to John interpretations of teachings: 20:21-23 Matthew 18:21-22, Matthew 6: 14-15, John 20:21-23

Examples of forgiveness arising No specifically NO CONTENT from personal beliefs Catholic examples

Good, Evil and Catholic perspectives on the p.234 – origin of pp.68-72 Suffering origin of evil: Original Sin (free evil – brief will) and 'soul-making' (Augustine overviews. No ref and Irenaeus/Hick): Augustine, to The Enchiridion The Enchiridion 3:11 3:11

Philosophical challenges posed pp.242-243 pp.74-76 by belief in God and the existence of evil and suffering

Catholic responses to the NO CONTENT pp.76-78 Problem of Evil; Pope John Paul pp.90-91 - Salvifici ll's Salvifici Doloris 13 and 23 Doloris 13 and 23