ЗМІСТ ТЕОЛОГІЧНОЇ ОСВІТИ У ЛЬВІВСЬКОМУ УНІВЕРСИТЕТІ ТА ЗАГАЛЬНОЄВРОПЕЙСЬКИЙ КОНТЕКСТ (КІН. XVIII – ПОЧ. XX СТ.)

Abstract

The article deals with the content of theological preparation of students of Lviv University of XVIII-th – beginning of the XX-th century as an element of Austrian higher theological education. Based on modern typology, the peculiarities of European theological education are analyzed from the retrospective. New research materials has been introduced to the scientific circulation, namely the curricula of the Theological Faculty of Lviv University of the specified period.It has been found out on the basis of the theoretical literature that there were two models – the Athens and Berlin ones in European higher theological education in the XX-th century according to David Kelsi. That is the transmission of spiritual experience and rational comprehension of theological knowledge. Robert Banks adds two more models to them – the Jerusalem and Genevian, which provided for the training of missionaries and parish priests respectively.It was operated a four-year program of theological education in the Austrian higher schools. Information on the content of higher theological education is contained in the published annual curricula of universities. It is established that during the XIX-th century, grammar of ancient Hebrew, ancient Syriac, Chaldean, Greek and Latin, church history, biblical archeology, biblical calculus, church history, didactics and catechetics, dogmatics, patriarchy, patriarchy, biblical hermeneutics, church law, moral and pastoral theology, liturgy, homiletics were studied at the Theological Faculty of Lviv University. The number of academic hours allocated to practical training has grown over the years.Based on analysis of the theological education content of the University of Lviv was typical to Austrian universities of the ХІХ-th century. It was almost completely respond with government regulations for higher schools. Based on the archival data, ministerial documents and comparative characterization has been shown that Austrian higher education combined the features of Berlin and Geneva models.