Spirituality in Theological Social Ethics

Theological Social Ethics is an established scientific discipline.During the height of scholasticism at the latest, it implicitly plays a fundamental role in the theological debate of ethical issues.This also applies to places where it was not explicitly named social ethics.In the disputes about the social developments during the Industrial Age and following specific "Catholic Social Teachings" in the late 19th century, the (social ethical) Christian teaching of society was decoupled from the (individual-orientated ethical) moral theology.The former became an independent subject, today commonly labelled social ethics.Scientifictheoretical, hermeneutical and social thought of Communio has become the subject 'Christian Theology.' Primarily, man remains related to the communication with God and understands himself as capable of a successful, two-way communication to and then, finally, from Him which through hope transcends all times.This 'roundabout communication' to one's neighbour via and from a community with God should be the distinctive Christian element when Christians talk about communion.The topic spirituality arrived in theology at the beginning of the 20th century.Since then, a wide-ranging reflection has unfolded on the inter-relationship between spirituality and theology.However, it comes as a surprise that the relation between spirituality and theological social ethics has not yet been made the subject of discussions.The following contribution, with due humbleness, tries to show up this relation.It starts off from the premise that neither theological social ethics without spiritual impetus nor spirituality without social references do make sense.The fact that spirituality

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• Christliche Sozialethik

  Günter Wilhelms•Christliche Sozialethik•2010

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