QUO VADIS THEOLOGIAE? CATHOLIC RELIGION TEACHER AND LAY THEOLOGICAL TRAINING BETWEEN 1996 AND 2016

Amidst a Europe-wide proliferation of the religious and esoteric market like never before, theology, as the scientific reflection directed towards the Christian faith, seems to be increasingly pushed into the background. Running counter to the European trend, several theological faculties were established within the universities of Romania following the 1989–90 regime change. This led to the 1996 establishment of the Faculty of Roman Catholic Theology within the framework of Babeș–Bolyai University. The paper at hand aims to present the relevance of studying theology. On the one hand, it briefly describes the legal situation of catechesis and religious education in Romania, while, on the other hand, it outlines the achievements of religious education by presenting the history of the first twenty years in the life of the Faculty of Roman Catholic Theology and – with the help of a statistical survey – the first eighteen graduating classes who finished their undergraduate studies in this period of time.