Influence of the comprehensive activity of the church social ministry on the spiritual state of ministers themselves: results of the empiric investigations

The article presents the results of the analysis and systematization of interviews with experts on Church social service at the roundtable discussion, dedicated to the problem of the influence of practice of help activity on the spiritual atitude (state of soul) of man. Despite the ambiguity of the problem because of the inability of direct objectivized analysis of spiritual phenomena, the author tries to estimate the influence and formulate evaluation criteria of the spiritual atitude of the participants in Church social service.