Non-denominational RE teaching based on a Christian ethical heritage: the Swedish case

Abstract This article discusses whether there is a contradiction in prescribing religious, more specifically Christian, tradition as the ethical basis for teaching that prescribed to be non-denominational. In Swedish curriculum, ethics borne by Christian and Western humanism are used platform school's at same time this not allowed of denominational nature. It has been argued an incompatibility or even adversarial here, which must eliminated dethroning removing either two poles. The analyzes such stance, it position, indicating general claims, can said rest on weak argumentative base. A critical complex interpretation concepts non-denominational teaching, intensional extensional references associated with them, open up less dichotomous positioning.