Philosophische Probleme der modernen orthodoxen Theologie

This publication is a non-academic discussion of the philosophical problems of
contemporary Orthodox theology. Participants in the discussion were asked to express
their views on the most important challenges facing contemporary Orthodox
thinking, focusing on the following questions posed by the editors of the journal
Otechestvennaya Philosophiya:
1) What is Russian Orthodox theology at the end of the first quarter of the 21st
century? What do you see as the possible and most important impulses for its development,
but also as challenges, problems and obstacles?
2) What are the philosophical problems facing Orthodox thought in the 21st century?
3) Does modern Orthodox theological language correspond to the contemporary
intellectual context? Should Orthodox theology interact with contemporary philosophical
currents and adapt their conceptual and categorical apparatus for its own
purposes, or is this an unacceptable modernisation of the theological heritage?
4) Can we talk about the special nature of the relationship between philosophy and
theology in the local intellectual tradition?
5) How do you assess the experience of interaction between philosophical and
theological thinking in the Russian religious-philosophical tradition of the 19th and
first half of the 20th centuries? Can it beused in modern Orthodox theology, and if so,
how?