Ecclesiastical Acting Beyond the Parish. A practical-theological theory of specialized ministries

本项目对作为教会组织形式的专业事工提出了实践神学理论，这是迄今为止实践神学理论形成的研究空白。首先，该项目经验性地检查了新教国家教会中哪些工作领域目前被归入“专门部委”（德语中有三个术语“Dienste”，“Werke”和“Einrichtungen”）。然后，该项目绘制出这些组织形式的复杂起源，并将它们与关于“第三部门”的理论考虑进行对比，以实现对专业部门的更深入了解。然后，这些形式的教会行为的神学基础就建立起来了。在此基础上，对这些教会组织的立宪逻辑的教会基础将得到发展。

The project develops a practical-theological theory of specialized ministries as a form of ecclesiastical organization, which is – thus far – a research gap in practical-theological theory formation. At first, the project empirically examines which areas of work are currently subsumed under the term “specialized ministries” in the Protestant state churches (in German there are the three terms "Dienste", "Werke" and "Einrichtungen"). The project then maps out the complex genesis of these organizational forms and contrasts them with theoretical considerations regarding the "Third sector" to achieve a deeper understanding of specialized ministries. Then a theological foundation of those forms of ecclesiastical acting is worked out. Based on this work, an ecclesiastical foundation of this constitutional logic regarding these church organizations will be developed.