ABSTRACT
All sophisticated religious belief systems have histories of relations, the literature of Christianity, Judaism and Islam being particularly rich. Theology of education at the present time is an active field of interdisciplinary study. Dissertation abstracts indicate the sort of work taking place in an effort to criticize, clarify and give new directions to education in the light of contemporary religious ideas. Education, like mathematics, engineering and farming, is governed by its own intrinsic principles. Theology receives no special supernatural aid. There is an extensive modern literature dealing with the relations between Christian theology and, for example, culture, the arts, politics, science and medicine. Professor Paul Hirst outlines two traditional Christian approaches towards morals. The first takes the will of God as ultimate in morals. The second sees morality as based on natural law and therefore supposes a degree of natural autonomy for the moral life.
