ABSTRACT
Trends in thinking about religious education have resulted in what has been called ‘Christless Christianity’ and an anxiety among many committed Christian teachers of the subject. They have been made to feel that any reference to their personal beliefs is wrong and that the subject should be left in the hands of agnostics or Humanists. Architecture can be fascinating and can stimulate aesthetic appreciation, but Christianity is more than architecture, and churches are supposedly built to the glory of God. Tension and the problems of commitment have tended to leave it untouched. The two strands have certainly not become interwoven in courses on such topics as Jewish, Muslim and Christian beliefs about Jesus even in the sixth form where it might be possible and worthwhile, and contact has even been lacking in the area of methodology and aim.
