Historical developments CHRISTIANITY PRINTED

• 1 in 3 schools are faith-based

Strengths and weaknesses

+They are inclusive and more diverse

+They produce the best results

+They promote good virtues

-Said to cause terrorism

-no longer funded by churches

-People feel excluded/separated from society

Dawkins

• Athiest and proffessor at oxford
• Book called "delusion of God"
• Religion is described as a virus and can cause evil
• God of the gaps

McGrath

• Converted from athiesm to catholicism
• Proffessor at oxford
• Book called "The Dawkin's delusion"
• Athiesm causes evil

"To grow up and still believe in God is to remain a child all your life"- Russel

Exclusivism- Your own religion is the only way to salvation

Inclusivism- Your own religion is one way to get salvation. Other religions may contain partial truths.

Pluralism- All religions have an element of truth.

Analogy of 6 blind men feeling an elephant. They may believe it is all different things but it is the same.

Hick

• God needs to be the focus not Jesus. Every religious person believes in a powerful God/ Gods of some sort but we all interpret him in different ways. (pluralism)

Rahner

• All humans are part of God's creation
• Non-catholics are actually anonymus christians as they aren't aware of God's love (Inclusivist)