AXIOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN RELIGIOUS EDUCATION AND SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH
AXIOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN RELIGIOUS EDUCATION AND SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH

Summary/Abstract: The problem of the nexus between the authentic Christian values and the day-by-day more desacralizedcontemporary world is one very delicate, almost unfathomable. In the realm of science we can hardly talkabout a general theory of values (axiology), because since the nineteenth century that seemed to elude (tosay the least) the relationship between facts (scientific ones) and values (social, cultural etc.), as hadpulled an alarm, at the beginning of the twentieth century, German phenomenologist Edmund Husserl. Onthe other hand, European education not only the contemporary one seems to ignore (directly or indirectly)Christian values, from the moment religion has turned from a discipline of objective interest to one ofparticular or subjective interest. Science and, consequently, scientific research are losing sight of what hastraditionally been the ultimate human goal: the authentic values that define man, constitute him in thespace of his very existence, as a being created “in the image of God”. Viewed at the level of the finalityand content, religious education reveals a set of values that are in congeniality with the teaching ofChristian faith. The Church, theandric institution that guarantees the condition of homo axiologicus freelyproposes values and does not impose them. Therefore we consider that it is imperative to reaffirm thegreat importance both to the Church, as basic institution of society and to religious education inaxiological-imbued formation of today young people equally from Romanian and European society.

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