Abstract:
This bibliographic research, with emphasis in the areas of Biblical and Practical Theology, is about poimenics, beginning with its development based on the life of Jesus Christ and from this proposes a new approach to its concept in theology and in the daily life of the Christian. Substantiated by resources from practical theology and from biblical anthropology, the first chapter aims at presenting the concept of poimenics associating it with the expression. “wholistic care” for the reader to better understand it, seeking to demonstrate through this concept the vocation of the human being for care-giving which is wholistic, since the human being is a whole being. Still in the first chapter, one remits to biblical theology to understand the goal of the existence of the human being and the peculiarity of the imago Dei which reveal the divine intention for God’s special creature: the human being. Next, the second chapter investigates the life of Jesus from his incarnation up to the cross, taking a deeper look at the experience of Jesus with the woman at the well in Samaria, so as to extract from his life and his poimenical action the basis for a model of caring which presents itself as the prime vocation of every human being. At the end, the final chapter seeks, first, to outline the current panorama of the society in which the Church of Christ finds itself to then propose a new approach to the concept of poimenics which extrapolates remedial actions to establish a wholistic perception of human life and of all of creation and challenges the Church to assume its vocation for wholistic caring.
