Ethos Education


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Doctor Who: A Town Called Mercy: How can competing rights be reconciled when crimes have been committed, so that everyone gets justice?

Learning Objectives:

  • Understand the concepts of justice and injustice.
  • Awareness of Christian teaching about judgement, forgiveness and punishment.
  • Understanding the concept of human rights.
  • Consideration of society’s obligation to protect its weaker members.

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Euan Murray and the 2011 Rugby World Cup: How do Christians attempt to understand and interpret the Bible?

Learning Objectives:

  • Awareness of different Christian beliefs about the authority, inspiration and interpretation of the Bible.
  • Awareness of how individual Christians base their lives on the teaching of the Bible.

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Captain America: The First Avenger: What are human beings like?

Learning Objectives:

  • Understand Christian teaching about the concept of sin.
  • Understand what Christians believe about the consequences of sin in people’s lives today.
  • Understand what Christians believe about the eternal consequences of sin.

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Women’s Cricket and Pay Disparity: In what ways are men and women different, and which areas of life should those differences affect?

Learning Objectives:

  • Awareness of different Christian views on the roles of men and women.
  • Awareness of modern Christians who have worked to oppose gender prejudice, and Jesus’ treatment of women.

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Made in Dagenham: What is a Christian approach to the subjects of employment, labour relations and trade unions?

Learning Objectives:

  • Awareness of reasons why Christians might be concerned about issues of social justice.
  • Understanding of Christian teaching about how Christians relate with the State.
  • Consideration of the tension between personal conviction and authority.
  • Awareness of different forms of protest.
  • Awareness of the role of local, national and international pressure groups.

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Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides: What kind of God would make a world full of pain and suffering?

Learning Objectives:

  • Understand some of the reasons for believing (or not believing) in the existence of God.
  • Knowledge of the ways in which, according to believers, God can be known.
  • Understanding arguments that seek to reconcile a powerful, loving God with a suffering world.

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