Trials in the ascetic discourse of the KyivPechersk Patericon

hagiographic ascetic piety in the The presented is carried out in the vein of a secular religious studies paradigm, is not guided by the of considers it as a phenomenon of self-consciousness of the Christian At the same time, the methodology of the study is strongly different from the scientistic view of mythology, which reduces its meaning to inventions, and whose data are contrary to science. It is stated that hagiographic narratives correlate with spiritual culture and are interpreted by the ascetic projection of a person’s attitude to life in the values of the Christian tradition. elite, 2) the value of the axiological and semiotic mechanisms of the formation of ascetic discourse in the monuments of Orthodox literature, 3) the value of the ideological apologetics of Christian asceticism, 4) the value of the mechanism for regulating the Christian way of life.