Debate on pastoral theology from the second vatican council till today

Pisac se članka prosudbeno osvrće na razvojni hod pastoralnoga bogoslovlja u razdoblju od Drugoga vatikanskog sabora do danas. Prije svega, osvrće se na odnos Sabora i saborskih spisa prema pastoralu i pastoralnomu bogoslovlju. Isto tako, predstavlja i interpretira stavove važnijih teologa pastoralista o ovoj bogoslovnoj grani. Stanje pastoralnoga bogoslovlja u teološkim krugovima nije bilo dovoljno jasno a niti je ono uvijek bilo ispravno shvaćeno pa tako ni danas. Unatoč tome, ova bogoslovna znanstvena grana ustraje na znanstvenomu putu, te kao međudisciplinarna znanost zauzima važno mjesto i ulogu u crkvenim a i u društvenim krugovima. Pisac se služi povijesno-prosudbenom metodom, raščlanjuje stanje pastoralnoga bogoslovlja u današnjim teološkim raspravama, i dolazi do spoznaje da pastoralno bogoslovlje treba jasno definirati epistemološke i metodološke kriterije da ne bi skrenula u pragmatične ili teoretske krajnosti. Također, pred snažnim tradicionalnim načinom pastoralnoga rada, zagovara potrebu preinake stvarnoga pastorala u posve novim crkveno-društvenim okolnostima.The author analyses the development of pastoral theology in the period from the Second Vatican Council till today. First, he discusses the relationship of the Council and Council documents to the pastoral care and pastoral theology. Also, he presents and interprets the attitudes of some major pastoral theologians about this branch of theology. So far, the state of pastoral theology in theological circles has neither been sufficiently clear nor has it always been correctly understood. In spite of that, this scientific branch of theology has been scientifically developing, and as an interdisciplinary science plays an important role in church and social circles. The author uses historical-evaluative method, analyses the state of pastoral theology in recent theological debates and realises that pastoral theology has to be clearly defined, using the epistemic and methodological criteria, not to stray toward pragmatic and theoretic extremes. Also, faced with a strong traditional way of pastoral work, one should plead for the necessary modification of actual pastoral work, since we live in totally new church and social circumstances