The Importance of Philosophy in Constructing the Concept of Religious Education. Contemporary Interpretations of Józef Tischner’s Dispute with Representatives of Polish Thomism (1977-1978)

The text presents a fragment of a philosophical and religious dispute that took place between Józef Tischner and the representatives of the Polish Thomistic school (1977-1978). The analy-sis below focuses on the last phase of the polemic, in which the adversaries made an analysis of their own epistemological and anthropological assumptions. Showing the structure and the issues in this dispute may lead to the specific context of understanding Christian philosophy, as well as contemporary discussions on the shape and structure of religious education. One of the central questions, which has hitherto not lost its relevance, is the one of the relationship that ex-ists between philosophy and religious thought (especially religious education). The following analysis is to provide the reader with a spectrum of possible answers to this question