The Religious Education Directory and anthropology
摘要
From September 2025 all Catholic schools in England and Wales must be fully compliant with the Religious Education Directory (RED). One of the commendable features of the RED is the way in which it devotes some serious attention to explaining the aims, rationale and objectives to RE as part of a Catholic education, prior to its detailed description of the structure and content of the RE curriculum. Amidst all this detailed description there are some intriguing references to the significance of anthropology in educational discourse. If, like the RED, the importance of anthropology is affirmed, this becomes a fruitful way for underpinning the aims of education generally and religion in particular. This article will take this discussion of anthropology in Part 1 of the RED as a starting point to explore potential insights from Rahner and the anthropological turn in Catholic theology.