2C · Unit 1 — Christianity, gender and sexuality. One unit, one method question — asked four times: the place of women, female ordination, Hampson & Ruether, and celibacy, marriage, homosexuality & transgender.
When Christianity speaks about gender and sexuality, who fixes the meaning — the plain text, the Church, the critical scholar, or the welcome of Jesus?
Every debate in this unit lines up on the same axis — from the texts bind (God speaks, for all time) to the texts are re-read (context, criticism, or the welcome of Jesus decides). Pick a sub-topic, then tap a position to see what it claims and where it's strong or weak.
Tap a circle — or use Tab and Enter — to explore each position.
Top answers don't treat the four debates separately. Three ideas run through all of them — spot the thread and you're writing at the top of the mark scheme.
Fundamentalist, Barthian, Catholic or critical — every position on women, orders and sexuality flows from a prior decision about HOW to read.
An unbroken succession from the apostles — against 'all one in Christ Jesus'. Ordination, feminism and sexuality all replay this collision.
The letters that tell wives to submit tell slaves to obey — and the Church re-read the second. The strongest lever in the whole unit.
The unit splits into four debates. They look different, but each is really asking who fixes the meaning of the tradition.
Everything for the unit, in one place. Open a sub-topic's lesson, booklet and podcast, and use the Philosopher Companion across all four.
LINKS list near the bottom, and paste each SharePoint share link once. Buttons with no link show as “Link not set”.
Use your resources in this order. The Philosopher Companion is where you learn to plan both question types.
One podcast per sub-topic — a teacher and student talk each position through to a judgement. Annotate as you listen.
Read the given text, write the key claims in your own words, then decide the strength and weakness you'd give each view.
In the Companion: match each term to its meaning, then use it in a sentence. RAG-rate the mastery checklist with the three faces.
Use the Companion frameworks and the guidance-left / your-turn-right scaffolds. Never evaluate what you haven't first explained.
A full review of 2C · Unit 1 — Gender — the place of women, female ordination, Hampson & Ruether, and sexuality. Best watched before you start revising, then again to check your recall.
Teacher: paste the YouTube link in the VIDEO_URL line near the bottom of this file. The player then appears here automatically.
Flip a card to check yourself. Switch between key terms (term → meaning) and views (view → claim, strength & weakness), and filter by sub-topic.