This is valid for all religions. In our present cultural and social context this deimension calls for special attention especially in our efforts to understand recent developments in the Christian tradition. Being a believer and living as a believer, as a consequence, has its proper place in the construction of a better world. This position has enjoyed a variety of different explanations in the course of history. Faith as engagement on behalf of one's fellow human beings, especially the victims of opression, the homeless, the poor, the socially isolated etc., roots itself in a particular model of society and rejects other models.
Salvation history becomes a reality in the concrete behaviour of human beings.
By paying heed to the experiences of the pupils in the educational situation, educators often encounter the problem of making the texts associated with the various religious traditions accessible to young people today. In order to face this difficulty one has to make use of the principles of interpretation or heremeneutics. Texts do not exist in and of themselves. They owe their existence to a specific context and are intended to give meaning to concrete experiences and situations. On the other hand, however, a number of other problems have been overlooked.