CHRISTIAN EDUCATION OF THE EARLY-DAY MONKHOOD IN THE DOMESTIC RELIGIOUS PEDAGOGICAL HERITAGE (XI-XVIII CENTURIES)

Abstract

The article reveals the thoughts of domestic theologians and churchmen of the times of Kyivan Rus, the Lithuanian-Polish state and the Hetmanate on the questions of Christian education in the first monasteries.The religious-pedagogical heritage of Metropolitan Hilarion, Theodosius of the Pechersk, Metropolitan Alexis, Ivan Vyshensky, Theophan Prokopovich and Dimitry of Rostov (Danylo Savich Tuptalo) has been researched. Three stages in the formation of the preconditions of scientific research on the education of monasticism were revealed. In particular, the first stage defined as X-XV centuries– was the time of the birth of interest in the problem of monastic education; the second stage (XVI - beginning of the XVII century) was the period of Christian antagonism, when the educational heritage of the founders of monasticism was discussed through the prism of confrontation of Catholicism and Orthodoxy. The third stage (XVII - XVIII centuries) was the stage of appearance of the first quasi- scientific research of teachers and students of Ostroh school, Kyiv-Mohyla college and religious schools.The work analyses and generalizes the education experience of early monasticism, which was practiced by Antony the Great, Pahomius the Great, Macarius the Great, Theodosius the Great, Martin of Tours, John Cassian, Benedict of Nursia, Flavius Cassiodorus, and Gregory the Great.