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Christian Bioethics Advance Access originally published online on July 16, 2009
Christian Bioethics 2009 15(2):119-135; doi:10.1093/cb/cbp011
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© The Author 2009. Published by Oxford University Press, on behalf of The Journal of Christian Bioethics, Inc. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

This article appears in the following Christian Bioethics issue: Diakonia II: Care-Taking in the Medical Realm and its Political Implementation [View the issue table of contents]

A Commentary to Norbert Mette: "Love as Evidence for the Truth and The Humanity of Faith: On the Significance of ‘Caritas’ in the Life of the Church"

Joachim Reber

Catholic University of Applied Sciences, Freiburg, Germany

Address correspondence to: Dr. Joachim Reber, Mitarbeiterseelsorge und spirituelle Bildung, Caritasverband für Stuttgart e.V., Strombergstrasse 11, 70188 Stuttgart, Germany. E-mail: j.reber{at}caritas-stuttgart.de


  Abstract

This commentary explains how the ecclesiological significance of charity is linked with the Christian option for the poor. It explores reasons for the obvious division of the church into two more or less isolated organizations ("pastoral church" and "caritas church") and looks for ways of bringing these two parts closer together. Secondly, the text emphasizes why spiritual formation among people working for Christian charity organizations is so important, and it specifies under which conditions such a formation (formation of the heart) probably can succeed.

Keywords: Caritas, option for the poor, solidarity, spiritual formation, theology of social work


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