Religious educators who facilitate
the valuing and meaning-making activities of their learners can truly be said
to be helping them create, find and live in a “religious world”. Christian
religious educators who engage in such educational endeavours are co-workers in
the new creation of a “Christian world” of Christian meaning and Christian
values. Their task is as important as
that. Marius Felderhof, Journal
of Beliefs and Values, vol 16 no 1, ‘Is there a place for the religious
voice in public education?’, 1995, p.25. If the
Christian voice could once more speak in the world of education it would be a
voice which beckons to vocation. It would entice the youth to love the
transcendent, to love the world which forever issues from the creative power of
transcendence, and to love their neighbour as themselves. It would invite
ministry rather than mastery as the true prize of education.
