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This is a reply to George Pattison's magistral triology on a "Philosophy of Christian Life" – focusing on its second part: "A Rhetorics of the Words" (2019). The paper offers an analysis of the main concept, namely the 'call' or the 'vocation'. This leads to three basic questions concerning the lack of vocation's communal character in Pattison's account; his one-sided inclination to pessimism in his cultural critique; and, the only marginal role that other articulations than the call might play within a "devout life" and its ambivalent authority. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This inaugural lecture adresses the topic of Christian contemporaneity as a core issue of practical theology today. In the light of the antagonisms of late modernity, this contemporaneity faces the risks of Christian discipleship in our times. Reflecting upon this challenge, Catholic practical theology transcends its own shape as a premodern theology just for priests and as a modern theology of the church, respectively. It moves towards a late modern theology of human experience as such, marked by the discursive transition from K. Rahner's Handbuch der Pastoraltheologie to H. Haslinger's Handbuch der Praktischen Theologie. Therefore, practical theology has to redefine its own scientific practices of SEEING (heterotopias instead of atopias and utopias, cf. Michel Foucault), JUDGING (abduction instead of deduction and induction, cf. Charles S. Peirce) and ACTING (situative instead of constative and performative speech acts, cf. Jacques Derrida). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

As an easily accessible service of youth and family protection, educational counselling has been available throughout Germany for over fifty years. Three social workers active in that field share on the basis of personal experience what they perceive as current pedagogical issues and problems stemming from a pluralistic, individualised environment that has lost its traditions. The authors encourage mothers and fathers not to resign to this open situation but to be present as parents and non-violently to confront their adolescent children with values, norms, their own expectations and desires. This can be most successful if parents can, from the beginning, develop a strong bond with their children even in difficult situations. The study is concluded with examples of preventive advising and counselling that enhances bonding. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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