As familiar and self-evident as what is meant by 'helping' may seem at first, it is difficult to define 'helping' in a precise conceptual way. Against this backdrop, the question of what 'helping' is will be taken up and dealt with from a theoretical point of view. The path taken to work out and systematically define the form of helping leads to the discussion of some of the (predetermined) breaking points built into it and to the conclusion that 'helping' must be categorically defined differently. Recent anthropological research also suggests this by referring to the social-theoretical embedding of individuals and leaving behind individual-theoretical understandings of isolated individuals who would then enter into a relationship with each other.

Enthalten in:
Evangelische Theologie; 2021/6 Zweimonatsschrift (2021)

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Serie / Reihe: Evangelische Theologie

Personen: Ricken, Norbert

Schlagwörter: Hilfe Theorie Begriffsgeschichte