Religious Studies

Course summary

The Theology A-level course offers a uniquely broad and deep grounding in the liberal arts. Pupils will wrestle with some of the most pressing issues facing modern society: religious conflict; medical ethics; sex, gender and identity politics; and the perennial tension between the freedom of the individual and the power of the state. Pupils will build their analytical skills engaging with both contemporary problems and classic texts in the history of religious thought. The course is deliberately open, but affords the opportunity to tackle problems with rigour, encompassing theological, philosophical, historical and literary analysis. In a world increasingly beset by the competing claims of religious conservatism and secular humanism, of internationalism and isolationism, there has never been a more exciting or important time to study Theology: it is the up-to-the-minute subject.