Eduqas GCSE Religious Studies Route B Specification - Good and Evil

Theme 2 - Good and Evil

Good, Evil and Suffering

• Catholic perspectives on the origin of evil: Original Sin and evil as a “privation”, with reference to St Augustine, The Enchiridion (3.11)
• Alternative Christian and non-Christian views on the nature and origin of evil and the difference between moral and natural evil.
• Catholic beliefs about the relationship between God’s goodness and the goodness of the created world
• Philosophical and non-religious challenges posed by belief in God’s goodness, free will and the existence of evil and suffering
• The meaning of suffering and Catholic ambivalence towards it, with reference to the significance of Christ’s suffering and death and Isaiah 53

Trinity

• The nature of the Trinity as expressed in the Nicene creed – One God in three persons: Father, Son and Spirit
• The biblical support for the doctrine and its historical development, with…