Man and History: Christianity in the system of historical relays and transmissions

R.m Rupova ,Maxim Bakhtin

doi:10.1051/e3sconf/202021016024

Abstract

Under the conditions of crisis and catastrophic events of the 20th century, a significant deepening of historiosophical thought took place, and attempts to create explanatory models of the historical development of society intensified. In the third millennium of the Christian era, new problems have already accumulated, requiring a new awareness of the culture-forming role of Christianity in modern conditions. Questions of understanding the historical process have been raised for many centuries, but at the present stage they are posed anew. A new perspective has appeared in the topic of comprehending history - the theology of history. In the tradition of Russian religious philosophy, it is associated with the names of N. Berdyaev and - especially - G. Florovsky. To this issue has been paid attention; new publications have been included. In addition, other approaches to understanding the historical process are considered in the work. The authors focus on the Christian tradition as a system of socio-historical relay races and broadcasts and the proposed systematic understanding of a person in his being in history and culture as part of this tradition. It is also shown that tradition as a historical phenomenon often becomes an object of ideological and political speculation and needs protection.

Highlights

Crises and catastrophes of the twentieth century have influenced a significant deepening of historiosophical thought, has intensified the creation of many models of the historical development of society
In the Renaissance, they come into conflict and, not breaking with the religious tradition, the cultural tradition ceases to be adjacent to the spiritual, breaks with it
The spiritual tradition is supplanted on the periphery of social life, and the cultural tradition becomes dominant

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Crises and catastrophes of the twentieth century have influenced a significant deepening of historiosophical thought, has intensified the creation of many models of the historical development of society. For many decades of the twentieth century, the leading position in Soviet historical science has been captured by such an understanding of history, according to which it appears as an arena of impersonal social forces, undivided domination of hard determinism, a “historical necessity” that prescribes appropriate thoughts and actions to people that are independent of their will. The names of people were present in it, rather as symbols of certain historical trends than as living individuals with their thoughts and destinies. This does not mean that in the real historical process there are no objective laws

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