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THE CHRISTIAN IDEAL OF EDUCATION FROM THE NATIONAL IDENTITY SPECIFIC, TO THE UNITY OF BELIEVE UNIVERSALITY

A. Ivan

Abstract

The problematic of national identity and his affirmation is from a long time an open chapter in the definition of the concept of education from Romania. It had been discussed if the national identity can be defined outside the elements of religious identity and if this issue contradicts or not the perspective of unity on the characteristic of religious diversity. Overall, the national and religious identity is necessary insofar that generates commune values and omens new opportunities of social interaction. Therefore, we can say that the religious education, from the Christian point of view, affirms the national and religious alterity and at the same time promote the ideal of unity through the feeling of faith. Faraway of relativization on the constitutive elements of national and religious identity, most of them being included in authentically models of social cohabitation, the Christian education best of all keeps the national and religious specific through the universal paradigm of unity of faith. The national and cultural diversity can be one from the first provocation of the first Christian communities. In the present moment, the Christian ideal of education assume in the best way this concept of unity in diversity, not through the confusion of the plans of debates, neither through the circumvent of the specific elements, but through the assuming of these elements in the perspective of the unity of faith.

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