How will these resources help you?

This list includes resources that explore the ineffable nature of God, religious experience and the value of via negativa (negative theology or apophaticism) as means of communicating the above. From the academic theory of William James to religious mystics and the twentieth-century falsification principle, sometimes the closest we can get to understanding God and our experience of God is through identifying what He is not. The scientific approach of falsification has been apparent in the apophatic descriptions of religious experience since the times of the Old Testament, and reflects the religious view that human minds are finite and cannot comprehend the infinite nature of God. The resources in this list provide insight into the nature of the approaches mentioned above and provide students with the opportunity to consider different perspectives. These resources would relate to GCSE RE specifications concerning beliefs about the nature of God, the distance between God and creation, the argument from religious experience, and higher level, such as EPQ and AS/A-level RE.