СУЩНОСТЬ И СОДЕРЖАНИЕ ПРАВОСЛАВНОГО ФУНДАМЕНТАЛИЗМА: РЕЛИГИОЗНЫЙ АСПЕКТ

Abstract

The article contains a theoretical analysis of the Orthodox fundamentalism conception, which has popularity in modern Russia and still hasn’t had a clear definition in its theological understanding. In the introduction of the article, the author defines the origins of «fundamentalism», «religious fundamentalism» and «Orthodox fundamentalism». Author, bases on analysis of the Holy Scriptures and Holy Tradition, declares that the fundamental ideas, which have already had deep roots in the Western Christian church since the Reformation and Counter-Reformation dispute, in Orthodox tradition had their origin only at the beginning of the 20th century as a response to atheistic attitudes. The main reason of this was the priority of the Holy Tradition over the Holy Scriptures, which, on the one hand, is not homogeneous because of the cultural diversity of the Orthodox churches, and on the other hand, because of the structure of the Holy Tradition as a constantly supplemented «eternal, ageless memory» of the Church. In case of the Russian Orthodox Church, fundamental ideas were represented as the decisions of the Local Church Cathedral of 1917-1918 in order to return to the Ecumenical Church of the first centuries of Christianity.