本文探究的主題為宗教教育之合憲性，此主題在本文中含三個子題： 一. 公立學校可否實施具宗教信仰內涵的生命教育? 二. 國家可否禁止私立中小學開設宗教教育? 三. 憲法是否賦予新約教徒有權拒絕接受牴觸其宗教信仰之教育，而選擇在家教育的權利? 本文先從歷史分析角度，探討宗教教育發展. 其次，闡釋宗教教育之合憲性基礎. 最後，基於上述的研究基礎，再進而判斷宗教教育之合憲性. 在公立學校之宗教教育方面. 若依政教分離之限定分離說觀點，生命教育的實施，若能對各種宗教信仰廣為介紹，保障學校成一個以學生自我實現為核心之多元. 開放. 中立而寬容之場域，尚不至違憲; 但若只提供某一特定宗教信仰的內涵，使學生沒選擇的可能性，將會違反政教分離原則. 若從徹底分離說的觀點，生命教育的教材內容，如果其內容蘊含一特定宗教信仰內涵時，將會違反憲法之政教分離原則. 在私立學校之宗教教育方面. 在公立學校以外的宗教教育，因並不涉及政教分離原則，而為憲法宗教自由之保障對象; 且，私立學校基於其辦學之目的，得自由選擇教師及學生，且已事先告知其應接受之宗教教育課程，故私立學校得自由開設宗教教育課程; 故，我國禁止私立學校開設宗教教育課程，實已違反憲法對宗教自由的保障. 在新約教會之案例方面. 當父母之宗教信仰與學校之價值體系有衝突時，為保障父母之宗教自由，應承認父母享有入學義務拒絕權，而可主張在家教育; 但為保障子女之受教育權，此種取代學校教育之在家教育，須除宗教內容之課程外，也須提供很於一般公. 私立學校所實施之國民教育內容及程度，使其子女享有與一般學校學生同值之教育. [摘要] The motif of the thesis is to investigate the constitutionality of the religious education. This thesis includes three sub-thesis： 1. could the public schools enforce the education of the life with the significance of the religion? 2. could the state forbid the private primary and junior high schools to establish the religious education? 3.does the constitution authorize the Xinyue Protestants to decline the general education which offends against their religious beliefs and choose to be educated at home? Aiming at these problems, this thesis sets out from the stance of the historical analysis to inquire into the development of the religious education. Then，the thesis explicates the foundation of the constitutionality of the religious education. Finally，basing upon the aforesaid results, then further discuss the constitutionality of the religious education. With the respect of religious education in the public schools, if according to the standpoint of the separation of church and state，the enforcement of the life education should spread various religions, secure the schools to provide a place for targeting the self-realization of the students and for the diversified，broadminded，neutralism and tolerance sphere，the aforesaid religious education is unlikely to unconstitutionality. But if the schools provide the one and only religious education，make the students have no selective possibility，and then these schools have acted against the principle of the separation of church and state. If from the standpoint of thorough split，the content of the teaching materials of the life education includes the courses of the one and only religion，then it acts against the constitutionality of the principle of the separation of church and state. With the respect of religious education in the private schools, because the schools don’t involve the principle of the separation of church and state，therefore，they are targets of protection under the constitution for religious freedom; furthermore，the private schools may depend on its own purpose of stablishment to freely select instructors and students and because being notified them about the required courses of religious education in advance，they may freely set up religious courses; our country forbids their setting religious courses have violated constitution. With the respect of the case study of Xinyue Protestants, when the parents’religious beliefs and the value system of the schools generate the conflicts, to protect the parents’ religious freedom the state should acknowledge that the parents have the right to decline the registration of their children for the required schooling education and may have right to educate their children at home; while to protect the rights of children for education as well，the substitute schooling education at home should provide similar content and standard of the general civil education as offered by the public and private schools in general in addition to the courses of religious education to let their children may also accept the equivalent education in the general schools. 論文
