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Information × Registration Number 0525U000199, Doctoral dissertation Status Доктор філософських наук Date 07-04-2025 popup.evolution e Title Modern Ukrainian Orthodox Theology: Critical Analysis Author Vasyl M. Lozovytskyi, Кандидат наук з богослов'я popup.advisor Viktor D. Bondarenko popup.opponent Oleksandr N. Sagan popup.opponent Anatolii О. Kyslyi popup.opponent Iryna V. Horokholinska Description The dissertation, for the first time in national philosophy, theology and religious studies, provides a holistic philosophical, religious and theological analysis of the main ideas and concepts of modern Ukrainian theoretical and practical Orthodox theology in its expression in the works of the most prominent Orthodox thinkers of the early 21st century in the context of the development of world Christian thought today. Today, post-neopatristics as a new paradigm of Orthodox thinking is developing due to the fact that the phenomenological and narrative-hermeneutic language of post-neopatristics provides broad opportunities for the development of Orthodox thought in dialogical openness to the present, in a fundamentally broader inclusion of the heritage of patristic thinkers of the East and the West for ecumenical dialogue and the formation of a renewed social teaching aimed at protecting the rights and freedoms of the individual. Openness in theoretical theology and Christian humanism in practical theology are consonant with the traditional features of Kyiv Christianity and the Ukrainian tradition of thought, which facilitates the perception and development of post-neopatristics in Ukraine of the beginning of the 21st century. It has been established that modern Ukrainian Orthodox theology has open Orthodoxy as its lifeworld. It has been revealed that a general characteristic of Ukrainian theological thinking, consonant with the ideas and values of open Orthodoxy, is the growth of worldview universalism. Also an important feature of modern Ukrainian Orthodox theology was the turn to anthropological issues, which is at the center of all Orthodox thought of the beginning of the 21st century. There is an intensive transition to the methodology of post-metaphysical theological and philosophical thinking, in which the influence of the theological turn in phenomenology, the development of "weak theology", the influence of narrative hermeneutics play a decisive role. In general, the general features of Ukrainian theological thinking are determined by involvement in the general Orthodox theological discourse, the influence of theological and religious-philosophical ideas of the leading Christian theologians of today J.-L. Marion, J. Milbank and others, the revival of Kyiv Christianity with its ideals of openness, dialogicity, synthesis of cultures. A positive assessment of all human potentialities as directed towards God allows thinkers of post-neopatristics to create an anthropology that avoids postmodern criticism of Christianity for its alleged repressive nature. D. Hart understands Christian anthropology as the basis for a theology of liberation from all attempts of modern and postmodern manipulation of individuals and communities. This theology of permanent liberation envisages the construction by Christians of an alternative civil society on the basis of both church and secular activities of cultural creation of the space of peace as the presence of the eschatological future. D. Hart and J. Manoussakis are critical of liberal democracy, imitating radical orthodoxy in this. P. Kalaitzidis, A. Papanikolaou, C.Hovorun and other Orthodox theologians who develop practical theology and create systems of political theology, defend modern liberal democracy. However, all these thinkers recognize the priority of the dignity of the individual and were able to form together the modern social teaching of the Orthodox Church in the document “For the Life of the World”. In Ukraine, the first to develop Orthodox theology of the postmodern era was the Kharkiv thinker Oleksandr Filonenko. Being under the decisive influence of the theology of communication of J. Zizioulas, O. Filonenko consciously built a post-metaphysical theology of post-postmodernity as a return to the subject, to reality and to a new sensuality. Filonenko's theology combined Christian humanism of theological ethics of absolute openness to the other, theo-aesthetics of a new sensitivity to reality and theo-dramatics of building a renewed culture. The primary ethical and epistemological evidence for Filonenko is associated with the experience of interpersonal communication, in particular - with the experience of divine communication. Theology develops as a phenomenological and hermeneutical understanding of this experience in ethical, aesthetic and ontological perspectives. The general task for theology is the restoration of the human in man after the anthropological catastrophes of the 20th century. The result of the theological understanding of the relationship of the individual with God, society, the world of nature, the world of culture, is Eucharistic anthropology. In dialogue with the ideas of the Orthodox theology of communication, the post-metaphysical theology of G.U. von Balthasar, the theology of the gift of J.-L. Marion, the ethics of E. Levinas, the philosophy of culture of G. Gumbrecht, Filone Registration Date 2025-04-17 popup.nrat_date 2025-04-17 Close