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Crucifixion Judgement and Life After Death (with particular reference to beliefs about Hell) YOU ALSO NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF THE BIBLE Hajj (The Pilgrimage to Makkah - the final Pillar of Islam) Sawm (Fasting during daylight hours during the month of Ramadan) YOU ALSO NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE SHI'A FESTIVAL OF ASHURA

Christianity (Beliefs and Teachings) The Nature of God The Problem of Evil The Trinity Creation Jesus The Crucifixion The Word and the Spirit in Creation The Ascension The Resurrection Salvation Atonement Interpretations of the Creation Story Eschatological Beliefs Judgement

Flew, Mitchell, Hare, invisible gardeners, paranoid students, and La Resistance...

Wittgenstein, AJ Ayer, The Vienna Circle, John Hick, a Celestial City, and whether or not that's a duck, or a rabbit... https://i2.wp.com/www.learningspy.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/duck-rabbit.jpg  Open the image at the link above and have it handy for when you're asked to look at the Duck-Rabbit, please. :-)

The Idea of God - from where do philosophers say humanity might have got our idea of the Divine?

This Podcast considers the nature of the Qur'an and its place in Islam as a source of authority. It includes thoughts about the way in which The Revelation was compiled into the physical book which we know today, how The Qur'an acts as a guide for Muslim worship, and the way in which The Qur'an is interpreted in order to identify Allah's will and inform Islamic Law (The Shari'ah). 

For BMS Students this Podcast relates to the content of a previous GCSE Course (so the unit numbers, 1.1, 1.2, etc. don't mean anything), but the content is still valid and useful for your understanding of how Islam works.

Introduction to the 5 Pillars of Islam

Some more complex ideas about some of the Six Articles of Faith in Sunni Islam.

Problem of Evil - A means to an end: Ivan Karamazov's final protest.

Problem of Evil - Swinburne and Hamilton

Problem of Evil - The Best Possible World

Problem of Evil - Irenaeus and John Hick

Problem of Evil - Alvin Plantinga and the Free Will Defence

The Problem of Evil - Resolving the Problem

The Problem of Evil - Pain and Suffering

The Problem of Evil - an Introduction

The Design Argument - Arguments from Probability (Swinburne, Mackie, and Tennant)

The Design Argument - a Defence of the Argument

The Design Argument - Darwin's Theory of Evolution