PHILOSOPHY. CONFLICT STUDIES. CULTURE STUDIES. RELIGIOUS STUDIES.
Issue 1, 2014
CONTENTS
| Section | RELIGIOUS STUDIES | ||
| Codes UDC | 281.9 | Page | 93-102 |
| Title | The understanding of tradition in the Russian Orthodox theology | ||
| Author 1 | Shaposhnikov Lev E. | Kozma Minin Nizhniy Novgorod State Pedagogical University 603950, Nizhniy Novgorod, Russian Federation Doctor of Philosophy, Professor e-mail: shapnnspu@rambler.ru |
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| Summary | This article traces the evolution of understanding of tradition in church council documents and Russian Orthodox theology. It is shown that its backbone is the church legend which can be understood as �the frozen unchangeable store of the faith� or as �the living and developing thought�. The later opinion is dominant in the Russian Orthodox theology today. In connection with this idea, the article reveals patriarch Kirill (Gundyaev)�s views. He believed that the eastern Christianity should keep to �the apostle�s norm of the faith� and at the same time the theology should be consistent in updating it. The combination of �eternal and divine� and �temporary and human� is the essence of the orthodoxy attitude to tradition. It resists both the conservatism which keeps to the unchanging church and the modernism which tends to devalue the essence of the legend. | ||
| Keywords | tradition, legend, conservatism, modernism, creativity, continuity, church, orthodoxy, theology, eternal, temporary. | ||