INTELLECTUAL HERITAGE OF THE KYIV THEOLOGICAL ACADEMY IN 19TH – EARLY 20TH CENTURIES: THE POTENTIAL OF THE INTERACTION OF THEOLOGY AND RELIGIOUS STUDIES

Abstract

The article is devoted to such a promising direction of research into the intellectual heritage of the Kyiv Theological Academy of the late 19th – early 20th centuries as the identification of the potential for interaction and mutual enrichment of theology and science. thus, let’s pay attention to the fact that elements of the scientific study of religious phenomena, common to many European countries, took place in local biblical and theological studies at that time. Their discovery will be outside the history of the history of the progress of Kyiv intellectual culture in its theological and scientific aspects. Several significant works of Kyiv researchers-academics of that period (Yakim Olesnytskyi, Volodymyr Rybinskyi, Dmytro Bogdashevskyi) are analyzed. In particular, Y. Olesnytskyi, having examined the Talmudic literature through the prism of comparative and religio-historical approaches, revealed significant ideological and symbolic transformations of monotheistic consciousness, examined them from the point of view of categories relevant both for theology and for philosophy and science: religious experience, supernatural, Other reality, the Absolute. V. Rybinskyi, having carried out a historical and institutional analysis of the key Jewish religious holiday (Shabbat), demonstrated an example of interdisciplinary knowledge of the phenomenon of religion. D. Bogdashevsky carried out an apologetic rationalization of the perception of the miraculous and supernatural in the Gospel narrative. In this act, he demonstrated a synthesis of biblical-hermeneutic, theologicaldogmatic, religious-practical, and philosophical-phenomenological approaches and methods. Based on the conducted analysis, the provisions for substantiation of Kyiv Orthodox theological apologetics elements of religious comparativism, history, philosophy, phenomenology, psychology and sociology of religion are given. these elements were generally modern in relation to pan-European and pan-world intellectual trends. The obtained data can significantly expand and enrich our discoveries about the domestic potential of the interaction of science and theology in the study of the world spiritual culture.