Development of Philosophical Thought in the Russian Church Theology of the 19th Century
Correlation of faith and mind is one of the key problems of Christian thought. Here we deal with an antinomy that cannot be resolved in the rational way. This article is concerned with the phenomenon of development and establishment of the philosophical problematics in the tradition of Russian church theology of the 19th century. The author analyses formation of the idea of graduall “philosophisation” of orthodoxy in the minds of the most outstanding theologists of that epoch. The predominance of the tasks of apologetics over abstract speculations with criticism of the philosophical rationalism is underlined.