The Role of Religious Education in the Training of Young People in Christian Moral Values and Virtues

Abstract

Vanya Karchina, The Role of Religious Education in the Training of Young People in Christian Moral Values and Virtues. The secular education has excluded religious education and can not achieve a wholistic process of both education and upbringing. The consequences of great religious ignorance are staggering, with moral deficits manifested in unnatural behavior ‒ such as cruelty, violence, aggression, lack of re-spect, self-criticism and self-control. Religious education does not consist only in the teaching of religious knowledge, but in something more: in spiritual and moral education. It introduces to Christian morality, values and virtues and it helps young people to build moral persons. As such, it helps the right function of the modern society, family and school.