New wine in new leather bags?: Hospital chaplaincy in Northern Europe – The Danish case

• DOI: 10.48626/tpt.v36i2.5352
• Publication Date: 2019-12-01
• Authors: Karsten Flemming ...; Niels Christian H...; Jens Søndergaard
• Keywords: Danish; Multitude; Spiritual care

Focal points of this article are preconditions and obstacles for the further establishing increasing professionalisation a specific field pastoral care in Lutheran Folk Church Denmark (CoD). Since mid-eighties general specialisation society has implied development multitude chaplaincy public domains (Kuhle & Christensen, 2019:182). This generated an increase numbers chaplains health care. In paper we aim to show main trends current state spiritual care1 hospital include first results from proscriptive audit pilot developed internal quality assessment development.2