Wychowanie religijne z perspektywy katolickiej

Abstract

Religious education is an integral part of education in general, and at the same time it has its own specificity, first of all because of the supernatural element present in it. Religious education may be understood as a set of actions making the bonds between man and God and between God and man deeper. It is not only transmission of religious contents, or even forming an attitude of preserving religious principies in a man, but forming a mature humanity in the perspective of the supernatural. Religious education is determined by the tradition of the given religion, by its differentiated character. Reflection undertaken in the present article shows religious education in the Christian perspective, and it leads, among others, to the following conclusion: Christian religious education is supposed to make it possible for a man to notice the existential character of religion, its significance for the quality of everyday lite and for a versatile development of the person.