The Caritas and Diaconia Organisations ? Providers of Social Services or Secondary Church Structures?

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Result on the web

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

The Caritas and Diaconia Organisations ? Providers of Social Services or Secondary Church Structures?

Original language description

The study deals with the relationship between church-operated helping organisations and the churches operating them. It starts from the general charitable task of Christians, which is at present being realised precisely by church-operated helping organisations accredited as providers of social services. The study shows how the churches? charitable task is impeded by such a practice. It identifi es the diff erent perception of the organisations and their work in the ecclesial and secular milieu as the cause of the situation. The secular setting does not understand the charitable organisations as a part of the church which realises its charitable task through them, but rather as the church?s fi lial company. As a result, the organisations? work is perceived in the ecclesial environment as the work of a common provider of social services, which raises the question of whether they are still Christian. The study therefore proposes a basic direction for solving the relationship of helping organisations and the churches operating them, so that the organisations partially give up on being integrated into the systém of social services in order to help those for whom the social services system does not provide. For that they need substantial material and moral support on the part of the churches. If the churches provided it, the responsibility for realising the charitable task would thereby be relocated to their basic structure.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_ost - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60303 - Theology

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Caritas et Veritas

ISSN

1805-0948

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Volume of the periodical

7

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

7

Pages from-to

99-105

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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