Abstract
The concept of professionalism has often been a challenge to helping/social professions as well as to Ethics as such. Initially, a widely used popular meaning of the concept of professionalism is discussed with some of its disadvantages when compared to the emphasis on personal qualities of professionals as identified through Aristotelian virtues of Sarah Banks' ethics of Social Work.
These professional virtues are then linked with some of the features of Theology of Vocation, which are then used to introduce more appropriate concept of professionalism, which could be more useful to Social Work and other helping/social professions as well as to Christian social and diaconal work.