Traditionalism and innovation in the formation of the educational program of the St. Sergius Orthodox Theological Institute in Paris
The article examines the initial period of the history of St. Sergius Orthodox Theological Institute in Paris, especially close attention is paid to the first year of its functioning in 1925–1926 and to the period of development of its educational program. The author of the article examines what...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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St. Philaret’s Christian Orthodox Institute
2022-02-01
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| Series: | Вестник Свято-Филаретовского института |
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| Summary: | The article examines the initial period of the history of St. Sergius
Orthodox Theological Institute in Paris, especially close attention is paid to the
first year of its functioning in 1925–1926 and to the period of development of its
educational program. The author of the article examines what goals and objectives
the new higher theological school was facing, where its organizers followed the
traditions of the former Russian theological academies, and in what they tried
to introduce elements of novelty, to make the education and spiritual upbringing
of students correspond to the new historical tasks associated with revolution, persecution of the church in Soviet Russia and emigration. For this purpose, the
Charter of the Institute of 1926 is analyzed in detail, the special attention paid
to the need for educational work, to the semimonastic lifestyle of students, to
the inseparability of the educational process from church and personal prayer.
At the same time, with the orientation of the educational program as a whole to
the program of the former theological academies, innovations are immediately
introduced into it. Even at the level of the name, the organizers prefer to call the
new educational institution not an academy, but an Institute, noting the genealogy
with the Petrograd Theological Institute. The special attention is paid to the
importance of social and historical sciences, to the European history and culture,
to the need to respond to new challenges of history and be open to the dialog with
the Western world. The article also analyzes the relationship between the Institute
and the Russian Student Christian Movement and the creative atmosphere of
the Institute, which made possible the theological work of its professors, which
remained in history as “Parisian theology”, and the education of pastors and
church activists who creatively respond to new challenges of the time. |
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| ISSN: | 2658-7599 2713-3141 |