THE CRITICISM TOWARDS ANCIENT NATURAL PHILOSOPHY'S ATHEISTIC ELEMENTS IN HOLY FATHERS' COMMENTS TO THE FIRST CHAPTER OF THE BOOK OF GENESIS
The article deals with the criticism on behalf of the Holy Fathers against atheistic tendencies of the natural philosophy. Religious features of the ancient atomism, confronting the orthodox doctrine, are explicated. The critical notions of the Holy Fathers' of the IV - V centuries AD provided in their comments to the first chapter of the book of Genesis, that overthrow the presuppositions towards atheistic ideology, are given. The conclusion is made about the non-contradictory relations between the Holy Fathers' doctrine and the atomism as an approach to the microcosm with no assertions concerning cosmology and cosmogony.