Sechzig Jahre Jahrbuch für Christliche Sozialwissenschaften – Entwicklungen, Umbrüche, Aufgaben des Fachs

Abstract

This article deals with 60 years of history of the Jahrbuch für Christliche Sozialwissenschaften as it is a central scientific journal for Christian Social Ethics (CSE) in the German-speaking area. Its aim is to elaborate some key points of the current stateof-the-art and to identify future challenges for CSE. Therefore, a short  introduction into the evolution of the JCSW is given and two generic questions are exemplified: (1) political ethics of democracy and (2) scientific theory of CSE. Both aspects are deeply intertwined and reflect social-ethical self-understanding and processing societal controversies as well. In order to initiate further discussions the last section of the article sketches perspectives of CSE that faces in a theologically reflected manner the claim for globally and contextually oriented universality and critical reflection.