Religious Studies GCSE
Meditation and discipline
What Meditation and discipline means in Religious Studies GCSE, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Meditation and discipline
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Intense personal effort through which enlightenment is typically achieved, rather than through an external deity communicating a message.
Topics that use Meditation and discipline
- Theme C: The existence of God and revelation (AQA GCSE)
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- Atheism
- Authority of scripture
- Christianity in Britain
- Contrasting worldviews
- Cosmology and origins
- Divine attributes
- Enlightenment
- General revelation
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