Konstantin Antonov

• head of department, dr. hab.
• Head of Department at St.Tikhon's Orthodox University

The article represents critical analysis of arguments contra recognition of theology as a specie of science. The author considers theology as a complex and multi-level system of cognitive practices and disciplines. Through a comparison with philosophy a level, completely relevant to all basic criterions of academic research exposes. The difference...

Fr. W. Schmidt is usually associated with the theory of primitive monotheism, diffusionism, and the concept of cultural circles. His impressive attempt to do both Christian apologetics and empirical science in the field of ethnology and religious studies generated a broad discussion concerning the limits of science, the role of presuppositions in s...

One of the key ethical debates in Russian religious thought, initiated by Leo Tolstoy, concerned the question of nonresistance to evil by force. The purpose of this article is to assess the influence of Kant’s ethics and philosophy of religion on the course of this debate and to determine the place and significance of the arguments and consideratio...

Zusammenfassung Im 20. Jahrhundert wurden mindestens vier distinkte Modi der Diskussion über die Kategorie »das Heilige« entwickelt. Der erste Modus der Kategorie des Heiligen findet sich in der klassischen und modernen Religionsphänomenologie. Bei seinem Besuch der Synagoge in Marokko 1911 entdeckt Rudolf Otto das Heilige als ein Noema der religiö...

The publication is a correspondence discussion on the philosophical problems of modern Orthodox theology. The participants of the discussion were invited to express their point of view on the most urgent and serious challenges facing contemporary Orthodox thought, focusing on the following questions posed by the editorial board of the journal “Nati...

The author asks the question about the meaningfulness of the substantive and stylistic opposition of Kant to Russian religious thinkers, which has become commonplace in the research literature. As an empirical test of this opposition, the paper attempts to reconstruct the discussion related to the reception of Kantian ethics in Russian religious th...

Рецензия на: Жукова О.А. Творчество и религиозность в русской культуре. Философские исследования. — М. : Согласие, 2022.

The article poses a seemingly strange problem: is it possible to conceive of the interchangeability of religious studies and theology? It is demonstrated, however, that modern discussions within each discipline tend to displace and marginalize the other. The author believes that the interdisciplinary war between religious studies and theology, whic...

On October 13, 2023, within the framework of the VI Congress of the Russian Religious Studies Society, an international round table in memory of professor Nikolai Lvovich Muskhelishvili was held at the Orthodox St. Tikhon‘s University for the Humanities in Moscow. Due to the hybrid format of presentations, the round table was attended by former col...

On April 22, 2023, the editorial board of the journal “St. Tikhon’s University Review. Theology. Philosophy. Religious Studies” with the participation of the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies of St. Tikhon’s University, within the framework of the annual conference “Research in Religion: Past, Present, Future”, a round table dedicated...

This publication introduces into the academic community S.L. Frank’s preparatory lecture notes and remarks on the philosophy of religion, created by philosopher during the preparation of his main work in this field – the treatise “The Unknowable. An Ontological Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion” (1939). The preface to the publication attem...

This text is a correspondence discussion about the problems of teaching the history of Russian philosophy in higher education. The experts were asked to answer six questions, reflecting, in the opinion of the editors, the main problems and conflict topics around the teaching of this academic and scientific discipline: Has students’ interest in the...

This discussion deals with the issue of validity of the methodological significance of the concept of postsecularity for the study of religions. In this regard, it touched upon the theoretical description of such phenomena as secularisation, secularity, bricolage, hybridisation, privatisation and deprivation of religion, as well as a number of othe...

In March 2022, the journal Voprosy filosofii and Educational fund of brothers Sergey and Evgeny Troubetski’s held a “round table” dedicated to the 160th an­niversary of the birth of the Russian philosopher Prince Sergei Nikolaevich Troubetskoy (1862–1905). The participants identified the most relevant, signifi­cant aspects of the teachings of Serge...

The article compares the philosophical-theological and historical-religious ideas and concepts of Prince S. N. Trubetskoi, a religious philosopher of the circle of V. S. Solovyov, a historian of philosophy and religion, and A. von Harnack, the largest representative of Protestant liberal theology of the second half of the 19th and early 20th centur...

In the article based on the following works of N.A. Berdyaev: “The Destiny of Man. An Essay in Paradoxical Ethics”, “Creativity and Objectification. An Essay in Eschatological Metaphysics”, “Truth and Revelation. Prolegomena to the Criticism of Revelation”, and “Self-Knowledge: An Essay in Autobiography” the author analyzes the philosopher’s attitu...

The article raises the question of the reception of Dilthey’s book “Leben Schleiermachers” by Frank in his analysis of Schleiermacher’s work. On the one hand, the authors demonstrate the obvious presence of Dilthey’s vision of Schleiermacher’s philosophy of religion in Frank. On the other hand, they note original moments in Frank’s understanding of...

The aim of the paper is to compare Semyon Frank’s and Ludwig Binswanger’s reception of Freudian ideas, represented in published works and correspondence (mostly unpublished) of the both thinkers. The essence of this reception is anthropological one. In a positive perception of psy­choanalysis and in its criticism Frank and Binswanger strive to form...

The article, addressed to those involved with church education and science, as well as participants of the religious studies scientific community, offers a set of arguments in favor of the development of academic religious studies as an educational and research practice in higher educational institutions of the Church. The author describes his visi...

This article critically analyses the book by Yury Pushchaev Philosophy of Soviet Times. М. Mamardashvili and E. Il’yenkov (Energies of Repulsion and Attraction) (Moscow, 2018). The analysis discovers in it a paradoxical mixture of a classic historical and philosophical study with an essayism of the conservative Orthodox fashion. Essayistic elements...

This article contains an attempt to reveal the modern roots of the concept of “personality” inherent in the concept of aof “neopatristic synthesis”, that proved crucial for 20th century Orthodox theology. For that purpose, it explores the cultural presuppositions of actualizing of a personalist problematic back in the second half of 19th th century...

This article deals with the project of philosophy of religion and philosophical theology suggested by A.A. Kozlov, the representative of philosophical spiritualism, an influential direction of the Russian metaphysical thought of the late 19th century. Special attention is paid to the problem of relationship between faith and knowledge, religion and...

In the article an interrelation of the ideas of "politics", "culture" and "personality" in philosophical works and political journalism of S. Frank in 1904-1906 period are under discussion. In the first part the author analyzes a critical self-reflection of philosopher concerning this interrelation which was outlined by him in his later work "The D...

In this paper the author gives the answer to the position of deacon M. Bulanenko, published in tis volume.

This is the next Krakow conference on Russian philosophy. In 2017 we studied the heritage of Alexei Khomiakov, in 2016 we investigated the significance of Peter Chaadaev's works. In previous editions we dealt with the links between Post-Secularism and Russian religious philosophy, the relation of Christianity and culture, the reception of Russian t...

The article contains a comparative analysis of approaches to the study of “sects” developed at the end of 19th the beginning of 20th century within the frame of Russian psychiatry on the one hand and within Russian religious thought on the other. The psychiatrist line is represented by I.A. Sikoskij 1842 1919, one of the main actors of Russian psyc...

Following article suggests a conceptual analysis of polemics on the question of origin and nature of religion which took place on pages of «Young Guard» and «Under the banner of Marxism» between M. Pokrovsky and I. Skvortsov-Stepanov in 1922– 1923. In the first part of the article the author examines the political, intellectual and social-biographic...

In the article the main points of Soviet reception of the idea of religious experience of famous American philosopher and psychologist W. James are under discussion. In pre-war (1920-1930s) time an attention payed to James was too small. At post-war period the discussion becomes more intensive and divides into three channels: history of philosophy,...

Konstantin Antonov, Chair and Professor of the leading Orthodox university in Russia, answers the questions about the status of theology as an academic discipline. In particular, he discusses issues of the subject of theology, relations between theology and the study of religion, the nature of free theological investigation and the place of confess...

The article makes an attempt of psychological interpretation of "Confessions of a Beautiful Soul" - the sixth book of Goethe's famous novel "Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship". The author examines the text of German writer in line with hermeneutical and phenomenological traditions of contemporary psychology of religion, using the ideas of L. Vygotsk...

The article examines the role which a discussion around the book of the American philosopher and psychologist W. James «The Varieties of Religious Experience» played in the development of the Russian philosophy and psychology of religion. The author carries out an analytical review of the Russian reception of James’s philosophy and psychology of re...

The article examines the relationship between religion and science (or rational activities as a whole) as two irreducible basic aspects of human existence and two subsystems of culture, constituted by different systems of values and norms. Theories postulating their harmonious coexistence are failures, and we need to understand the profound causes...

In their reactions to A. Kyrlezhev's and M. Shakhnovich's reviews, the authors of the volume under discussion provide further clarifications of key methodological issues. They stress that the volume pursued academic goals rather than engaging in a wider public debate. Speaking of the Soviet science of religion, they prefer the concept of extreme sc...

The author considers the principal moments of the understanding of religion in psychoanalysis as perceived by Russian thinkers of the fi rst half and the middle of the 20th century. The author indicates the conditions and context of the perception of psychoanalysis in Russia in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the main contiguity points shar...

The author considers the principal moments of the understanding of religion in psychoanalysis as perceived by Russian thinkers of the first half and the middle of the 20th century. The author indicates the conditions and context of the perception of psychoanalysis in Russia in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the main contiguity points shared...

The author attempts a step by step analysis of the way religion was studied during the Soviet period. Discussing the way Soviet techniques differed from those of the Tsarist period, the author insists that any idea of a normal progression of ideas must be rejected and that instead we are dealing with a transformation of basic principles and a de...

It was not a chance occurrence that a number of followers of Vladimir Solov’ev wished to group themselves in an association of academics. Rather it was the realization of that concept of knowledge which on the theoretical plane was conceived as universality. The author of this article thought it worthwhile to pursue the study of the thought pro...

The article represents critical analysis of arguments contra recognition of theology as a specie of science. The author considers theology as a complex and multi-level system of cognitive practices and disciplines. Through a comparison with philosophy a level, completely relevant to all basic criterions of academic research exposes. The difference...

The scientific study of religion in pre-revolutionary Russia is connected closely with the system of Ecclesiastical Academies: Saint-Petersburg, Moscow, Kiev and Kasan. The article is devoted to development of the historical approach to those studies including its relations to philosophical and theological one. The large role in that process was pl...

The article analyzes the "religion and science" problem as mapped out by two representatives of Russian Hegelianism in the end of the nineteenth century - Boris Chicherin and Pavel Bakunin. The analysis of relations between science and religion allowed both thinkers to articulate the most general grounds of their philosophical systems. The article...