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A Discipline in Quest of an Identity: Religious Education

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 September 2014

Berard L. Marthaler
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Abstract

If religious education is to have a proper place in seminary, college and university curricula, it needs to acquire a clear identity as an academic discipline. A course must be developed which deals with foundations of religious education, its history and philosophy. Its relationship with theology and moral education demands special treatment.

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Horizons , Volume 3 , Issue 2 , Fall 1976 , pp. 203 - 215
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Copyright © The College Theology Society 1976

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