MODERN ORTHODOX THEOLOGY EDUCATION IN UKRAINE: MODERNIZATION’S AND REFORMING’S PROBLEMS
 

Vasil Michailovich POPOVICH

associate professor, Department of Social Work, Zaporozhye National Technical University, Department of Philosophy and Social - Humanitarian disciplines, Zaporizhzhya Regional Institute of Postgraduate Pedagogical Education, Zaporozhye, Ukraine, popovic.vasil@gmail.com, 0038(063)2815664

Abstract

Modern Ukrainian society faces the important post-industrial era’s challenges, confronted with the opposing trends action. Orthodox theological education’s theoretical and practical aspects are presented today in thematic areas. Modern Orthodox theological education is a clergymen’s, pastors’ and theologians’ training system. In Orthodox theological education, there are two main vectors that determine its essence and content. First of all, it should be noted that Orthodox theological education system that has developed in Ukraine today is a pre-revolutionary Russian tradition continuation.

Keywords

Theological education, the Bologna Process, Orthodox Church, high education

SUMMARY

The society’s development and changes in Ukrainian theological life require the Orthodox Church to make important decisions that will affect the relations between the state and Ukrainian society, since Orthodox Church’s theological traditions don’t mean its development and support among the population. Unlike, the systems of European Local Orthodox Churches’ theological education, in which they are integrated into the national high education system, in Ukraine they exist separately and are developing in parallel. The consideration of this issue and is the study’s purpose.

(Language: english)

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