title: Pastoral hermeneutics and the challenge of a global economy: care to the living human Web.
abstract: The author discusses the relationship between a pastoral hermeneutics and the current social context as determined by international communication and globalization. He explores the influence of telecommunications on the human quest for meaning and the implication of this for pastoral care and counseling. A paradigm shift is proposed in terms of care to the living human web. A pastoral assessment which interprets the undergirding philosophy and belief system of globalization and its influence on human dignity is suggested; and a pastoral ministry which takes up its prophetic task and voices the needs of people in terms of a "globalization from below" is explicated.
authors.affiliation: Department of Practical Theology & Missiology, Faculty of Theology, University of Stellenbosch, Dorp Street 171, Stellenbosch, 7600 South Africa. DJL@sun.ac.za
authors.forename: D J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Louw
mesh_terms: D001294:Attitude to Health / Q000208:ethnology; D002835:Christianity; D003469:Culture; D004467:Economics; D006801:Humans; D038622:Internationality; D020407:Internet; D009014:Morals; D010327:Pastoral Care; D010684:Philosophy; D012945:Social Values; D013685:Telecommunications