Joachim Eckart

Joachim Eckart (born January 30, 1955 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German Catholic theologian .

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He completed his degree in Catholic theology and philosophy (1975–1980) with a focus on pastoral psychology and religious education with Karl Frielingsdorf at the PTH Sankt Georgen in Frankfurt am Main . He also studied the history of natural sciences , sociology and educational science at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main . He received his doctorate from Ernst Weinand Leuninger in Vallendar in 1998, where he also qualified as a professor . He teaches as an honorary professor for pastoral theology at the PTH Vallendar , where he has been working since the winter semester 1999/2000. As a religion teacher with full credits, he has lectured at the Theodor-Heuss-Gymnasium (Ludwigshafen) since 2005 . In the Andragogik he has worked since 1980, to a two-year part-time lecturers training for Communication Studies, Media Education and Media Education . He has been accompanying full-time and volunteer workers in the parish since 1990; Associated with this is a systematic development of an own pastoral concept (enabling pastoral). He helps in conflict management with community problems: Concrete practical experience through decades of intensive support for full-time employees and volunteers; A three-year training as a family therapist and systemic advisor (IPFP) was both supportive and helpful . The in-service training of the institute for the promotion of young journalists on the practice of journalistic work with a focus on press and public relations promoted the own practice in the editorial team of the magazine PGR-Info and the collaboration in the editorial team of the magazine Charisma . He is married to the theologian Angelika Eckart , with whom he has three children.

His work and research focus are pastoral theology (studies on systemic pastoral care, research on enabling pastoral care, training in mystagogical pastoral care, evaluation of synodal processes, practical support for full-time and volunteer workers) and religious education and andragogy (research on constructivist pedagogy , from enabling didactics to Enabling pastoral care, religious instruction in theory and practice).

Fonts (selection)

• Parish council and cooperative pastoral care. A pastoral theological investigation using the example of the Diocese of Speyer (= dissertations. Theological series. Volume 78). EOS-Verlag, Sankt Ottilien 1998, ISBN 3-88096-917-5 (also dissertation, PTH Vallendar 1998).
• Enabling pastoral. A new paradigm in Seelsorge Books on Demand GmbH, Norderstedt 2004, ISBN 3-8334-1917-2 (also habilitation thesis, PTH Vallendar).

Web links

• Homepage
• PTH Vallendar