The perception of an icon by modernist theologians in the first half of the XX century
The article examines questions about understanding of an orthodox icon in works of native theologians and philosophers of the first half of the twentieth century. Besides the characteristics of modernist theology, in the article special attention is paid to one of the movements inside of it - the so-called theology of an icon.Representatives of this movement tried to form a new understanding of an icon, its theological understanding and significance in a human life. Main conclusions are as follows: the Russian movement for renewal of Christianity, which was formed at the beginning of the XX century, had parallels with key concepts of modernist theologians; representatives of theology of an icon did not pay due attention to such an aspect of religious life as icon-veneration; formation of meaning of an image in modernist theology was greatly influenced by Russian symbolists.