THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF ECCLESIAL POSITION REGARDING PHILOSOPHICAL AND SCIENTIFIC WORLD VIEW IN HOLY FATHERS’ COMMENTS TO GENESIS, CHAPTER ONE
The article deals with the crucial traits of the Holy Fathers’ attitude towards the discrepancies between the religious epistemology and ancient philosophical and protoscientific heritage, derived from their criticism against the ideas of natural philosophy. The critical notions of the Holy Fathers of the IV-V centuries AD, such as St. Basil the Great, Gregory the Theologian, John Chryzostom,Ambrose of Milan, Augustine of Hippo, as well as St. Philarete (Drozdov) - that characterize their attitude towards the ancient philosophy, as derived from their comments for the Genesis, chapter One, are given.