Chapter 5: Philosophy of Religion and Religious Education in Schools

Abstract

B oth the philosophy human being and constantly religion originate faces amazement, in human daily astonishment, life, in which mystery, the experience of living in pursuit of meaning. This disposition profoundly links being with the power of interrogation, which emerges in daily experience and acquires force in everything that goes beyond everyday life. Thus, it becomes a guiding search for the meaning of life through reflection. The difference lies in the fact that while philosophy attempts to ground the meaning of evident realities in reason, by asking “what”, religion, in its search for meaning, delves into the same realities on the basis of the understanding and projection of the spiritual dimension.