Religious Language
Candidates should be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:
Religious language – uses and purpose;
The via negativa (Apophatic way);
The verification and falsification principles;
Different views on the meaningfulness of religious language;
The uses of symbol, analogy and myth to express human understanding of God;
The views of the Vienna Circle, A. J. Ayer, Anthony Flew, Ludwig Wittgenstein and Paul Tillich on religious language.

Religious Experience
Candidates should be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the following in relation to God and religious belief:
Arguments from religious experience from William James;
The aims and main conclusions drawn by William James in The Varieties of religious Experience;
The following different forms of religious experience: visions, voices, 'numinous' experience, conversion experience, corporate religious experience;
The concept of revelation through sacred writings

Miracles
Candidates should be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the following in relation to Miracles:
Arguments from Aquinas
Hume’s rejection
Swinburne’s reaction to Hume
R.F Holland’s argument for miracles
Paul Tillich’s argument for Miracles
Wile’s argument for miracles
Nature of God
Candidates should be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:
God as eternal, omniscient, omnipotent and omni-benevolent – and the philosophical problems arising from these concepts; the views of Boethius in