Фарисейство: образ и смыслы

Abstract

The article deals with the image of Pharisaism as a multidimensional and complex phenomenon with a wide semantic field. The authors trace the way of formation of this image, from the text of the New Testament and the writings of the Holy fathers of the Church, to the analysis of the meanings of this concept in modern Orthodox literature. The authors distinguish and consider various aspects of the image of Pharisaism: moral, religious-psychological, existential. These aspects reflect different features of the image, but in the aggregate they give an opportunity to describe the whole image of Pharisaism. The article contents the analysis of Pharisaism as a distorted form of religious consciousness, and a comparative analysis between the Pharisaism and the true religiosity, as it is understood in the tradition of Russian religious philosophy, is carried out. The authors also analyze the manifestations of Pharisaism at the level of social and religious phenomena, which allows them to move from the consideration of Pharisaism as an internal order phenomenon to its analysis as a social phenomenon. The article raises the question of the institutionalization of Pharisaism as one of the problems accompanying the modern religious revival in Russia. The authors make correlations between Pharisaism as a personal phenomenon and Pharisaism at the institutional level. Based on this comparative analysis, the authors conclude that Pharisaism at the social level accompanies the process of institutionalization of religion.