Abstract Applying sociological imagination and theological perspectives and using some secondary literature that focus on the American pastoral experience, this article explains why sociology and the social sciences are underutilized in the pastoral ministry of Catholic priests despite the Catholic Church’s openness to human sciences’ contributions to evangelization after the Second Vatican Council. In particular, it examines how the (i) uneasy alliance between Catholic theology and sociology, (ii) overemphasis on the invisible and theological dimension of the Church in current ecclesiologies, (iii) highly philosophical and theological clerical education which sidelines the empirical sciences in clerical pastoral work, and (iv) dominance of the individualist approaches of clinical psychology in pastoral theology have greatly contributed to the neglect of sociological inquiries and perspectives in clerical formation and pastoral ministry. It also argues that a genuine pastoral care must be based on a holistic and empirical assessment of the pastoral needs of parishioners by priests using sociology and the social sciences before it prescribes a plan of action for pastoral care to accurately inculturate the Christian message in today’s technological culture.

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社会科学，牧区神学和牧区工作：了解天主教牧区社会学的利用不足

摘要运用社会学的想象力和神学的观点，并使用一些侧重于美国牧民经验的辅助文献，本文解释了为何天主教神父的牧师部中社会学和社会科学未被充分利用，尽管天主教教会对人文科学对传播福音的贡献持开放态度在梵蒂冈第二届理事会之后。尤其是，它研究了（i）天主教神学与社会学之间的不安联盟，（ii）过分强调当前教会学中教会的无形和神学方面，（iii）高度哲学和神学的文书教育，这掩盖了西班牙的经验科学牧师的工作，（iv）在牧草神学中临床心理学的个人主义方法的主导地位极大地导致了在牧师的形成和牧草事工中对社会学问题和观点的忽视。它还指出，真正的牧养必须基于牧师使用社会学和社会科学对教区居民的牧养需求进行全面和实证的评估，然后才能制定出一项牧养行动计划，以在当今的技术中准确地培养基督教信息。文化。