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Tetiana Andrushchenko, Doctor of Philosophical Sciences, Professor, Head of the Department of Social Sciences (e-mail :
Bogdan Siuta, Doctor of Art History, Professor (e-mail :
Andrii Savchuk, Professor of Choral Conducting Department of Ukrainian National Tchaikovsky Academy of Music
PHІLOSOPHІCAL AND CULTURAL ASPECTS OF ARTІSTІC ІNTERPRETATІON
Oleh Kubalskyi, PhD in Philosophy, Associate Professor, Leading Researcher (e-mail :
SCIENTIFIC COMMUNICATION IN THE AGE OF GLOBALIZATION AND SOCIAL TURBULENCE
Morozov Andrii, Doctor of Philosophical Sciences, Associate Professor (e-mail :
Nataliia Shust, Doctor of Sociological Sciences, Professor (e-mail :
THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE INFORMATION SOCIETY IN UKRAINE: CHALLENGES AND PROSPECTS
Boris Novikov, Doctor of Philosophical Sciences, Professor (e-mail :
Tamara Rudenko, PhD in Philosophy, Associate Professor (e-mail :
Svitlana Babina, PhD in Philosophy, Senior Lecturer (e-mail :
SKOVORODA’S PHILOSOPHICAL WORK IN ASPECT OF MORAL IMPROVEMENT OF MAN
Olha Khromova, PhD in Philosophy, Associate Professor (e-mail :
Olena Mishchenko, PhD in Technically, Senior Lecturer (e-mail :
Kseniia Nikolenko, PhD in Philosophy (e-mail :
PROSPECTS OF THE TRANSFORMATION OF UKRAINIAN HIGHER EDUCATION IN THE POST-WAR PERIOD
Ihor Rusnak, PhD in Philosophy, Assistant (e-mail :
FUNCTIONAL POTENTIAL OF RELIGION IN THE CONTEXT OF WAR
Andrii Shymanovych, PhD in Philosophy, Doctoral student (e-mail :
THE INTELLECTUAL ORIGINS OF THE CHRISTIAN PHILOSOPHY OF ÉTIENNE GILSON
Andrii Kvik, PhD Student (e-mail :
Ihor Lutsan, PhD in History, Senior Research Associate (e-mail :
Andrii Bobryk, PhD in Theology, Master of History and Law (e-mail :
HESYCHASTIC SYNERGISM AND THE SEPARATION OF THE WEST AND THE EAST
Oleksandr Tsisar, PhD Student (e-mail :
RELIGIOUS CONCEPTUALIZATION OF THE TEACHINGS OF INNOKENTY GIEZEL ON MORALITY
author: Oleksandr Tsisar
Urgency of the research. Innokenty Gizel belongs to the prominent Ukrainian church and cultural figures of the middle of the 17th century. Under the leadership of Innokenty Gizel and with his blessing, the printing house of the Kyiv-Pechersk Monastery published a number of important publications that contributed to the improvement of church life. Among them, a voluminous treatise on issues of moral theology, «Peace with God to a Man», which was published in 1669, stands out. In addition, the interpretation took into account the conditions of development at that time. This work had a significant impact on Ukrainian theological thought and Ukrainian culture of the late 17th and early 18th centuries. The philosophical and theological work «Peace with God to a Man» also influenced the Orthodox Church in the Eastern Slavic region. In view of this, consideration of the treatise «Peace with God to a Husband» is important for the study of Ukrainian culture, in particular, the theological thought of the early modern period.
Target setting. The analysis of modern scientific research and consideration of generalized interpretations regarding the religious conceptualization of Innokenty Gizel’s teaching on morality shows insufficient coverage of its defining features. Therefore, such a study is quite natural, taking into account the changes associated with the development of philosophical thought.
Actual scientific researches and issues analysis. One of the first works to provide an overview of Innokenty Gizel’s work was the book «Innokenty Gizel» by Mykola Sumtsov, a researcher of ancient Ukrainian writing, published in 1884 in Kyiv. Dmytro Chyzhevskyi, a well-known researcher of Ukrainian and Russian philosophy, took certain steps to «rehabilitate» ancient Kyiv scholarship. Dmytro Chyzhevsky is the author of the work «Ukrainian Literary Baroque.
The research objective. The purpose of the study is a comprehensive review of the religious conceptualization of Innokenty Gizel’s teachings on morality, including the interpretation of sins, their circumstances, and atonement.
The statement of basic material. Innokenty Gizel played a prominent role in cultural and religious movements in Ukrainian lands in the middle of the 17th century. However, the life and work of this church figure, writer, philosopher and theologian remained out of the attention of researchers for a long time. The same can be said about the treatise «Peace with God to a Man», published with the blessing of Innokenty Gizel and under his editorship. The treatise «Peace with God for a Man» should be considered as an exposition of religious and moral norms inherent in Christianity. By religious morality we mean a set of concepts and principles that are conditioned by a religious worldview. Religious morality is interpreted as having a divine origin. However, its norms depend in a certain way on socio-cultural circumstances. This is what is substantiated in the treatise «Peace with God to a Man». A lot of attention is paid to the problems of good and evil, moral virtues and vices, sinfulness, as well as moral duty. Such an orientation was intended to expand the range of cultural assets that could be used by the Orthodox. As a rule, researchers consider the treatise «Peace with God to a Man» and the work of Innokenty Gizel in general in the context of Ukrainian Baroque culture. In the treatise «Peace with God for a Man», Innokenty Gizel gives a broad classification of sins as moral defects, which are interpreted from a theological point of view. In the foreground are sins of a religious or purely ecclesiastical nature. Then there are sins that concern worldly life, in particular, family relationships, the activities of people of various statuses and professions. It is worth noting that it is generally problematic to clearly distinguish the religious and secular components in the interpretation of sins in the treatise «Peace with God to a Husband». Considering religious and ecclesiastical sins, Innokenty Gisel, despite referring to the Bible and the works of the Fathers of the Church, relies on the realities of life in Ukraine at that time. When analyzing universal (common) sins, he appeals not only to his contemporary realities, but also to church tradition, and emphasizes religious aspects. Innokenty Gisel assumed that the basis of social relations is the family. In the treatise «Peace with God for a Husband» a lot of attention is paid to family sins. Giving preference to the patriarchal family, he still advocated the humane attitude of men to women, for harmonious moral relations. The treatise pays attention to children, their upbringing, instilling in them good customs and faith in God. The main social force in the treatise «Peace with God to a Man» is the Orthodox clergy. It is structured, divided into bishops and monks. The main mass is white parish clergy. Innokenty Gisel knew well the life of the Ukrainian Orthodox clergy, the violations and defects inherent in its environment. When describing the sins of spiritual persons, he relied mainly on the realities of his time. I understood that the clergy, being influenced by trade and market relations, increasingly began to «serve mammon». Innokenty Gisel describes the sins of the worldly people separately for each condition. He draws attention to the fact that those in power treat their subjects humanely. He calls on the representatives of the social classes to respect the authorities and their masters, not to raise riots or uprisings.
Conclusions. Innokenty Gizel focused on the model of a socially structured stable society. He understood that the then Ukrainian society was far from ideal, that representatives of different social statuses, including and the clergy, commit illegal and often immoral actions. Moreover, people endowed with power and wealth do it more often and more. That is why Innokenty Gizel sought to improve church life. I found a number of violations in the activity of the higher clergy, the elimination of which would make the activity of the Orthodox Church in Ukraine more effective. He insisted on the responsible performance of their duties by clergymen, tried to direct the activities of clergymen, preachers and monks in the proper direction. Fulfillment of Innokenty Gizel’s proposed requirements to the Orthodox clergy fully corresponded to the spirit of confessionalization.
Keywords: theology (theology), religious conceptualization, religious morality, sins, confessionalization, baroque, early modern society
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author: Andrii Bobryk
Urgency of the research. Hesychastic synergism opens up the prospects of scientific and theological searches for a new form of Christianity, finding a balance and interaction between the hierarchy and the believing people, between the Church, society and politics, and the possibility of a constructive dialogue between the West and the East. Prayer is the quintessence of Christianity. The fundamental category of Hesychasm’s theology is the term “energy”, which has a different reception both in the East and in the West, which has led to a division not only in ascetic practice, but also in the dogmatic doctrine of the Trinity.
Target setting. The study of the genesis and development of the philosophical category “energy” and the ways of its assimilation by Christian theology reveals the entire depth of understanding of dogmatic and practical disagreements between the Western and Eastern Churches. Objective conclusions from investigations of this topic can serve new theological reflections in the field of ontology, epistemology and anthropology of Christianity.
Actual scientific researches and issues analysis. The theoretical basis of this intelligence was the research of David Bradshaw, priest Vitaly Ignatiev, Hennadiy Hristokin, Sidorina Yevgenia, Mykhailo Reutyn, Lyudmila Usikova, Tatiana Gavrilyuk, etc.
The research objective. The purpose of the article: the study of the concept of “energy” and its transformation and reception in the East and the West. The task: to find out the meaning of hesychastic prayer practice and to prove the possibility of communion with God for a whole person.
The statement of basic materials. In the article, the author makes a theological and philosophical analysis of the term “energy” as a fundamental category of the theology of Hesychasm, which, in various transformations and receptions, became a determining factor in the formation of two parallel religious-philosophical paradigms: Eastern Christian and Western Christian. It is argued that the West followed the path of Neoplatonism, identifying God himself with being “ésse” and actions with creative results, which led to a certain distance between God and creation, and involvement was perceived through the causality of being. Eastern Christianity took a conceptual language from Neoplatonism and created its own religious-philosophical patristic tradition, in which the existence of God is distinguished between inner and outer, where the inner is unchanging, and the outer is a manifestation and reflection of the inner and which is complicit with creation.
Conclusions. Hesychasm is a theology of synergism or experience, where the term «energy» expresses that which eternally accompanies the essence of God. The divine attributes: goodness, life, immortality, immutability, limitlessness, and beginninglessness are not things that God arbitrarily establishes, but special modalities of the divine act of self-manifestation. The West does not recognize in God anything other than the divine essence, and for the East God in addition to nature is an eternal uncreated Glory.
Keywords: hesychasm, “energeia” (energy), “esse” (being), synergism, palamism, neopalamism, neoplatonism, essentialism, personalism, non-classical paradigm
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author: Ihor Lutsan
Urgency of the research. War crimes and occupation actions by Russia which are being committed today that are taking place on the territory of Ukraine are terrifying with the power of their cynicism, and, by no exaggeration, savagery, barbarism and horrible atrocities against everything that is Ukrainian – the nation, its spiritual values, cultural heritage, etc. However, the Kremlin has been eroding, leveling and denying the national and cultural-value identity of the Ukrainians long before 2022, and even before the occupation of Crimea and parts of Donetsk and Luhansk regions. Therefore, Russian aggression today has not only made urgent the reform of all military structures of Ukraine, but also significantly affected world politics, the economy and, in particular, the religious community in its entirety and in all its denominational diversity.
Target setting. The study of nature and peculiarities of the Church and religious life during the war allows us to state with certainty that the Church is quite active in the search for effective models of how to solve urgent problems, since it is constantly present in the public sphere. Therefore, in religious and political circles, the Church is regarded as one of the main actors in the solution of a number of problems of social development.
Actual scientific researches and issues analysis. The main empirical source for our study was a survey of the opinions of the clergy of the OCU regarding the specifics of parish life and the role of the pastor in war conditions. A considerable body of background information is also contained in the official statements and decisions of the meetings of the Holy Synod and Council of Bishops of the OCU. The main empirical source for our study was a survey of the opinions of the clergy of the OCU regarding the specifics of parish life and the role of the pastor in war conditions. A considerable body of background information is also contained in the official statements and decisions of the meetings of the Holy Synod and Council of Bishops of the OCU. Meanwhile, the general ideological basis for the study is the works of the leading Ukrainian experts – theologians, religious scholars and psychologists, namely: O. Brodetskyi, S. Holovashchenko, I. Horokholinska, V. Yelenskyi, T. Kalenychenko, I. Kozlovskyi, O. Kokun, A. Kolodnyi, V. Mykhalevych, L. Nauholnyk, O. Sahan, L. Fylypovych, V. Khromets, Yu. Chornomorets, A. Yurash et al.
The research objective. The goal of the study is to comprehensively explore practical models of socially significant activity of clergy of the OCU and to consider their views on the specifics of parish life and the role of the pastor during the war.
The statement of basic material. The OCU’s significant role in the society and the specifics of its activity during Russia’s military aggression against Ukraine, and the impact of Russia’s war crimes on the church and religious life and the state of public consciousness in the country are analyzed. Further, we reveal peculiarities of this confession in practical terms of its parishes’ functioning, in relation to the events of the war itself and their consequences.
Conclusions. The Church and the State are facing extremely complicated tasks today. Therefore, rational decisions and correct approaches of both the Church and the secular leadership determine how constructively changes in the society will occur and complex problems will be solved, in particular the end of the war and the return of peace to Ukraine.
Key words: the OCU, war, volunteering / charity, public consciousness, psycho-emotional state, restrictive measures, worship services, military chaplaincy.
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author: Andrii Kvik
Urgency of the research. That is why, in the conditions of the globalization of society, there is an increasingly urgent need to create favorable conditions for the functioning of various religious systems, and more often the peaceful coexistence of confessions and denominations in the environment of individual religious teachings. Therefore, the problematic questions to which ecumenism tries to give an answer deserve more and more attention with the passage of time.
Target setting. In the process of dialogue, it is important to interpret the «interlocutor» from the standpoint of the soteriology of a specific denomination, which can be carried out in the light of inclusivism (the assumption that salvation can be achieved by any Christian, regardless of his religious affiliation or even a non-Christian, if he adheres to the norms of universal morality, ethical principles) or exclusivism (salvation can only be achieved by followers of a certain religious faith or confession). In the environment of Catholic theology, theologians who were distinguished by inclusivist soteriological views were A. De Lubak and K. Raner, who tried to create a concept that would become a kind of bridge for ecumenical and interreligious dialogue.
Actual scientific researches and issues analysis. A number of researchers, including N. Gordienko, N. Arsenyeva, Yu. Kryanev, V. Bodak, I. Bondaruk, S. Kyyak, P. Yarotskyi, V. Yelenskyi, O. Kiselyov, Yu. Korniychuk, were engaged in the study of the problems of the ecumenical concept of Catholicism.
The research objective. This study aims to analyze the effectiveness of the Catholic ecumenical concept from the perspective of the development of interreligious dialogue.
The statement of basic materials. The Enlightenment philosophical concept led to the formation of the understanding that religion must serve the common good and justice in society, otherwise it cannot function freely in the public space. Protestant criticism of the biblical text largely reflects the main trends of the crisis of faith in the social environment of the Enlightenment, and they also laid the foundation for the formation of liberal theology. In the Catholic environment, such phenomena have been criticized, but over time there is an understanding of the need for an adequate reaction of the traditional Church. As an option to solve this issue, the creation of conditions for the separation of religious and non-religious spheres, which will make it possible to achieve objectivity on the part of the secular authorities with the simultaneous inclusion of the legally regulated functioning of religious organizations, which can carry out social activities in the plane of ecumenical actions, can be done. The analysis of social phenomena that gave impetus to the formation of the ecumenical movement in its current forms and manifestations is extremely significant, as it is a reading and forecasting of the further development of the ecumenical concept as a whole, which requires a detailed delineation of the impact of postmodern trends on the cultural change of society. The question of rationalization of religious beliefs, which satisfy the needs of the vast majority of the planet’s population, arises more and more often in the religious and philosophical environment, but the question of the probability of the disappearance of these beliefs or, even more, their elimination from the cultural and worldview plane of humanity, is not raised in any way.
Conclusions. The globalization processes of society, which are aimed at the consistent unification of people in the cultural and economic planes, entail the blurring of various faces and identities. Under the conditions of such a rapprochement process and in the religious environment, the problem of coexistence of different religious systems through tolerance, interreligious dialogue and transcultural dynamics comes to the fore. Different types of ecumenical initiatives are called to solve these issues, and the consequence of the gradual perception of persons who are carriers of different religious worldviews is manifested in the possibility of dialogue and spiritual union of these religious systems. The successful implementation and functionality of such a dialogue, the comfortable coexistence of different cultures and worldview paradigms, become possible thanks to cooperation in the field of avoiding and overcoming transcultural and civilizational conflicts.
Key words: ecumenism, interreligious dialogue, interfaith dialogue, religious environment, Islam.
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