THE HISTORICAL METHOD IN THE STUDY OF RELIGION IN ECCLESIASTICAL ACADEMIES IN PRE-REVOLUTIONARY RUSSIA

• Main Author: K. ANTONOV
• Format: Article
• Language: Russian
• Published: St. Tikhon's Orthodox University 2011-03-01
• Series: Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Серия I. Богословие, философия
• Subjects: history of religion; philosophy of religion; primitive monotheism; evolution; natural religion; revealed religion; О. M. Novitskij; I. A. Chistovich; Bishop Khrisanf (Retivtsev); V. D. Kudriavtsev-Platonov; A. I. Vvedenskij; S. S. Glagolev
• Online Access: http://periodical.pstgu.ru/ru/pdf/article/1310

The study of religion in pre-revolutionary Russia is closely connected with its network of Ecclesiastical Academies: Saint-Petersburg, Moscow, Kiev and Kazan’. This article studies the development of the historical method in the study of religion including its philosophical and theological aspects. A major breakthrough in this process occurred when Russian experts adopted some of the ideas of Fr. M. Müller. The author analyzes the most important works of O. M. Novitskij , I. A. Chistovich, archbishop Hrisanph (Retivtsev) as well as the contributions of the following professors of the Moscow Ecclesiastical Academy: V. D. Kudriavtsev-Platonov, A. I. Vvedenskij , and S. S. Glagolev. Finally, the author underlines the importance of these ideas in the development of the study of religion in Russia.