Н.С. ИЩЕНКО
preserving the Orthodox religion in the country involves promoting eucharistic ecclesiology, which is not historically rooted in the Orthodox Church and has been developing since the mid-20th century as an alternative to the universal ecclesiology. The latter assumes that the universal church is not reduced to the sum of its parts, that the criterion for correct faith is the unity of the episcopate, and that maintaining the integrity of the empirical church is one of the values of church communion. Eucharistic ecclesiology presumes that the fullness of grace is contained in each experiential community united by the common Eucharist. Eucharistic ecclesiology aids in instrumentalizing the church and turning it into the spokesperson for the secular interests of communities, which is already happening in Ukraine. This article shows that despite the church schism itself does not remove Ukrainians from the Russian civilizational space, it includes church communication into the foreign policy of reducing the Russian cultural influence in Ukraine and changing the civilizational identity of its inhabitants. Keywords: instrumentalization of religion, liberal orthodoxy, tomos, Orthodox Church of Ukraine, Russian Orthodox Church, Ukraine, ecclesiology, church schism
About the author:
Ishchenko Nina Sergeevna — Candidate of Philosophical Sciences, Docent, Musical Variety Art Department, Musical Art Faculty, Lugansk State Academy of Culture and Arts named after M. Matusovsky, e-mail: niofterna@gmail.com
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