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GCSE Religious Studies

Primary texts selected for the GCSE Religious Studies course.

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Primary texts for GCSE Religious Studies.

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  1. Eerdmans · Alvin Plantinga · 1932–God, Freedom, and EvilThe free-will defence and a modal version of the ontological argument.William B. Eerdmans paperback edition, ISBN 9780802817310. · Publisher description, bibliographic record and purchase route.WEB
  2. Oxford Academic · Alvin Plantinga · 1932–The Nature of NecessityPossible worlds, modality, essence and the metaphysical framework behind several theistic arguments.Oxford Academic record for the Oxford University Press edition, with bibliographic details, contents and chapter abstracts. · Publisher record and chapter-level preview; complete access may require purchase or an institutional subscription.WEB
  3. Oxford Academic · Alvin Plantinga · 1932–Warranted Christian BeliefA model of how Christian belief could possess warrant if true.Oxford Academic record for the Oxford University Press edition, with bibliographic details, contents and chapter abstracts. · Publisher record and chapter-level preview; complete access may require purchase or an institutional subscription.WEB
  4. Oxford Academic · Alvin Plantinga · 1932–Warrant and Proper FunctionThe proper-function account of warrant and knowledge.Oxford Academic record for the Oxford University Press edition, with bibliographic details, contents and chapter abstracts. · Publisher record and chapter-level preview; complete access may require purchase or an institutional subscription.WEB
  5. New Advent · Aquinas · c. 1225–1274Summa TheologiaeA systematic treatment of God, human action, law, virtue and Christian doctrine.English Dominican Province translation, second revised edition, 1920; online edition presented by New Advent. · Free article-by-article HTML text.WEB
  6. Christian Classics Ethereal Library · Aquinas · c. 1225–1274Summa Contra GentilesArguments concerning God, creation, providence and rationally accessible theology.Joseph Rickaby translation and annotations, published online under the title Of God and His Creatures. · Free readable HTML with PDF, EPUB and other download options supplied by CCEL.WEB
  7. Iowa Research Online · Aquinas · c. 1225–1274On Being and EssenceA concise metaphysical analysis of essence, existence and created being.University of Iowa repository record for Robert T. Miller's English translation in Selected Writings of St. Thomas Aquinas (Fordham University Press, 1997). · Institutional bibliographic record with an external open-access link; access to the linked text may depend on the destination site.WEB
  8. Project Gutenberg · Augustine · 354–430ConfessionsAn inquiry into memory, desire, time, conversion and the divided will.English translation by E. B. Pusey. · Readable online with downloadable ebook formats from the catalogue page.WEB
  9. Christian Classics Ethereal Library · Augustine · 354–430City of GodHistory, political order, earthly peace and the contrast between rival orientations of love.City of God in volume 2 of the first series of Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, in a historical English translation. · Free readable HTML with PDF, EPUB and other download options supplied by CCEL.WEB
  10. Cambridge Core · Augustine · 354–430On Free Choice of the WillFree will, moral evil, divine justice and the source of wrongdoing.Cambridge Core chapter record for Peter King's translation in Augustine: On the Free Choice of the Will, On Grace and Free Choice, and Other Writings (2010). · Publisher abstract and bibliographic record; complete access may require purchase or an institutional subscription.WEB
  11. Project Gutenberg · Cesare Beccaria · 1738–1794On Crimes and PunishmentsThe case for legal certainty, proportionality, prevention and reform of torture and capital punishment.Contained in James Anson Farrer's Crimes and Punishments (1880), which presents a new English translation of Beccaria's text with commentary. · Readable online with downloadable ebook formats from the catalogue page; the container volume and translator are identified explicitly.WEB
  12. New Advent · Irenaeus · c. 130–c. 202Against HeresiesA defence of one good creator, embodied humanity, apostolic teaching and recapitulation against Gnostic systems.Ante-Nicene Fathers English translation associated with Alexander Roberts and William Rambaut, revised for the historical series and presented in New Advent's online edition. · Free book-by-book HTML text.WEB
  13. Christian Classics Ethereal Library · Irenaeus · c. 130–c. 202Demonstration of the Apostolic PreachingA concise presentation of creation, scripture and redemption.Translated from the Armenian by J. Armitage Robinson; SPCK/Macmillan, 1920; CCEL title The Demonstration of the Apostolic Preaching. · Complete readable web text with repository-provided PDF and other ebook options.WEB
  14. SpringerLink / Palgrave Macmillan · John Hick · 1922–2012Evil and the God of LoveThe major contrast between Augustinian and soul-making approaches to evil.Palgrave Macmillan electronic edition, 2010. · Publisher book record, preview and institutional or purchase access.WEB
  15. Springer Nature Link · John Hick · 1922–2012An Interpretation of ReligionThe pluralist hypothesis of culturally shaped responses to the transcendent Real.An Interpretation of Religion: Human Responses to the Transcendent, second edition, Palgrave Macmillan, 2004; ebook ISBN 9780230510678, DOI 10.1057/9780230510678. · Official book record with contents, chapter previews where offered, and institutional access options.WEB
  16. Wipf and Stock Publishers · John Hick · 1922–2012Faith and KnowledgeReligious experience, faith as interpretation and the epistemology of belief.Faith and Knowledge: A Modern Introduction to the Problem of Religious Knowledge, second edition; Wipf and Stock reissue, 2009, 278 pages, paperback ISBN 9781606086964. · Official publisher record with description and purchase routes; it is not a downloadable full text.WEB
  17. Penguin Books UK · Mackie · 1917–1981Ethics: Inventing Right and WrongThe systematic defence of moral error theory and scepticism about objective value.Penguin paperback edition, 1990, ISBN 9780140135589. · Publisher edition record and purchase route.WEB
  18. JSTOR · Mackie · 1917–1981Evil and OmnipotenceThe influential formulation of the logical problem of evil and criticism of free-will solutions.Mind 64 (254), April 1955, pp. 200–212; stable JSTOR record 2251467. · Stable journal record with institutional or personal access options and any preview JSTOR makes available.WEB
  19. Google Books · Mackie · 1917–1981The Miracle of TheismA critical examination of arguments for God and the rationality of religious belief.The Miracle of Theism: Arguments for and against the Existence of God, Clarendon Press, 1982, 268 pages, ISBN 9780198246824. · Controlled Google Books bibliographic record with the preview permitted for the user's region and library or seller routes.WEB
  20. Routledge · Mary Midgley · 1919–2018Beast and ManHuman nature, animal continuities and criticism of narrow accounts of instinct and reason.Routledge edition, 2003, ISBN 9780415289870. · Publisher edition record and purchase or institutional-access route.WEB
  21. University of Georgia Press · Mary Midgley · 1919–2018Animals and Why They MatterMoral consideration, species boundaries and the place of animals in human ethical thought.University of Georgia Press paperback, published 1 September 1998, 160 pages, ISBN 9780820320410. · Official publisher record with description and purchase routes; it is not a downloadable full text.WEB
  22. Routledge · Mary Midgley · 1919–2018Evolution as a ReligionA critique of turning evolutionary theory into a totalising myth of progress or destiny.Evolution as a Religion: Strange Hopes and Stranger Fears, second edition, Routledge, 2002, 224 pages, ISBN 9780415278331. · Official publisher record with description, contents and purchase or institutional ebook routes.WEB
  23. Routledge · Mary Midgley · 1919–2018WickednessAn inquiry into evil, responsibility, aggression and the refusal to project wrongdoing onto alien monsters.Second edition, Routledge, 2001, 252 pages, ISBN 9780415253987. · Official publisher record with description, contents and purchase or institutional ebook routes.WEB
  24. Oxford Academic · Richard Swinburne · 1934–The Existence of GodThe cumulative probabilistic argument from world, consciousness, morality and religious experience.First edition, Oxford University Press, published 21 March 1991; print ISBN 9780198239635 and online ISBN 9780191598609. · Publisher book record and online chapter access subject to purchase or subscription.WEB
  25. Open Library · Richard Swinburne · 1934–The Coherence of TheismAn analysis of divine attributes and whether the concept of God is coherent.Work-level library catalogue record for The coherence of theism; select a listed edition on the record. · Bibliographic record with edition, library-location, borrowing or preview links where available; this row is bibliographic or sample-only unless the selected edition states otherwise.WEB
  26. Open Library · Richard Swinburne · 1934–Providence and the Problem of EvilFreedom, responsibility, natural evil and proposed goods that might justify divine permission of suffering.Work-level library catalogue record for Providence and the Problem of Evil; select a listed edition on the record. · Bibliographic record with edition, library-location, borrowing or preview links where available; this row is bibliographic or sample-only unless the selected edition states otherwise.WEB
  27. Open Library · Richard Swinburne · 1934–Mind, Brain, and Free WillA defence of substance dualism, personal identity and libertarian freedom.Work-level library catalogue record for Mind Brain and Free Will; select a listed edition on the record. · Bibliographic record with edition, library-location, borrowing or preview links where available; this row is bibliographic or sample-only unless the selected edition states otherwise.WEB
  28. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections · William Paley · 1743–1805Natural TheologyThe argument from contrivance in organisms and nature to an intelligent creator.London: J. Faulder, 1809 edition, presented as digitised page images and searchable text. · Free full-text reading and page-image access.WEB
  29. Open Library · William Paley · 1743–1805The Principles of Moral and Political PhilosophyUtility, obligation, government, property and moral accountability.Work-level library catalogue record for The principles of moral and political philosophy; select a listed edition on the record. · Bibliographic record with edition, library-location, borrowing or preview links where available; this row is bibliographic or sample-only unless the selected edition states otherwise.WEB
  30. Open Library · William Paley · 1743–1805Horae PaulinaeAn argument for the historical credibility of Pauline letters from undesigned coincidences.Work-level library catalogue record for Horae Paulinae; select a listed edition on the record. · Bibliographic record with edition, library-location, borrowing or preview links where available; this row is bibliographic or sample-only unless the selected edition states otherwise.WEB
  31. Project Gutenberg · Mary Wollstonecraft · 1759–1797A Vindication of the Rights of WomanEducation, rational equality, virtue, citizenship and the social production of dependence.Original English text in the Project Gutenberg catalogue edition. · Readable online with downloadable ebook formats from the catalogue page.WEB
  32. Project Gutenberg · Mary Wollstonecraft · 1759–1797A Vindication of the Rights of MenA republican critique of inherited privilege, hierarchy and Burke's political aesthetics.Original English text in the Project Gutenberg catalogue edition. · Readable online with downloadable ebook formats from the catalogue page.WEB
  33. Project Gutenberg · Mary Wollstonecraft · 1759–1797Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and DenmarkTravel writing that connects commerce, feeling, landscape, gender and political judgement.Original English text in the Project Gutenberg catalogue edition. · Readable online with downloadable ebook formats from the catalogue page.WEB
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