In Sorge um Gesellschaft, Kirche und Amt

Helping others and being sensitive to their needs and vulnerabilities is one of the classic characteristics of the pastoral profession. Pastors not only care for others in their professional practice, but they also care about others. Pastors practise a ‘caring profession’.
 For the parish profession, patterns of action that are oriented towards the well-being of the next person are typical, as are patterns of interpretation that place a special focus on vulnerabilities. Jonas vom Stein traces these patterns in a contemporary historical study, which is located in the ‘long 1960s’, using methods from sociology of knowledge discourse analysis.