Theological Foundations Of Spiritual Security Of Russian Culture And Metaphysics Of Evil

Abstract

The purpose of the article is to confirm the relevance of the study of theology in Russia. The most important humanitarian threat to a man of today is the loss of understanding of the eternal importance of human life. On the basis of hermeneutic modelling of macro-historical processes, two consecutive macro-trends of the national cultural and civilizational history are distinguished: the Byzantine and the Western. The first one is characterized by the absolutising the nature of God's perception, expressed in all aspects of human life in the world, beginning with the modelling of the world as an artistic work of the Highest Creator. The second hyper trend is characterized by extreme absolutisation of the human beginning, which is gradually moving away from its Creator. The crisis of modern planetary civilization, increasing risks and real multidimensional catastrophes are associated with the divergence of these мacro-trends. The loss of understanding of the eternal importance of human life. The specificity of theological knowledge understood as the totality of the fundamental concepts about the Lord, the universe and the man‟s place in its creation, all the meaning of life and the purpose of human‟s existence and the metaphysical inviolability of the God-human connection in the experience of infinite love, which “never fails” is revealed. The danger of perceiving security as a permanently acquired and completed in time state of reality is shown, as well as the duality of the rhetoric of security itself.