ABSTRACT
The whole of education was to be consistent with, and where possible directly derived from, Christian beliefs. The school was to be considered a Christian community. No clear distinction was made between the roles of the church and the state school. As late as 1956 Rupert Davies remarked on the variety of half-formed ideas and commented on the need to explore the matter more thoroughly. The increasingly rapid pace of secularization and the variety of religious and non-religious views which have taken the place of the Christian establishment of the 1940s can no longer be denied. Christian doctrines cannot be intelligently believed without attention to the problems of philosophy which the doctrines raise. Christian doctrines overlap with areas of scientific inquiry and of historical investigation. Evaluation of other forms of religious experience and other claims to religious truth is bound to follow from the Christian’s meditation on his own experience and his belief in the truth of his own religion.
