Philosophy as theology: the experience of creating an apologetic philosophy textbook for universities
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https://doi.org/10.51216/2687-072X_2025_3_14-36Keywords:
teaching philosophy, theology, apologetics, an interesting philosophy textbook, secularism, post-secularism, the main question of philosophy.Abstract
The relevance of the topic is determined by the significant ideological asymmetry between secular and religious popular enlightenment and education, inherited from the secular era. This asymmetry is manifested, in particular, in the secular pseudo-criticism of the religious worldview by the atheist consciousness, whose main arguments are dictated by religious ignorance or illiteracy. Taking into account the fact that post-secularism is one of the mental characteristics of the present time, it is possible to assert overcoming the bias between secular and religious public education as one of the educational tasks facing modern Russian society.
The object of the research is the possibility of religious education in the context of modern secular education. The subject of the research is the specifics of theological education for students of secular universities in the framework of teaching a general education and compulsory philosophy course and creating a textbook of the same name on this academic discipline. The main research methods are pedagogical observation, comparative analysis, idealization, thought experiment, deduction, induction and conclusions by analogy.
One of the main results of the work is a justification of the possibility and expediency of Orthodox education of students of secular universities in the process of studying philosophy on the basis of a textbook with an apologetic orientation and at the same time fully preserving its educational and developing potential for the formation of a general philosophical culture of personality. The field of application of the research results is pedagogical activity on religious education in the structure of secular education, the formation of an Orthodox worldview, as well as the theory and practice of teaching philosophy and other socio-humanitarian disciplines in a modern higher education institution.
For citation: Gusev D. A. Philosophy as theology: the experience of creating an apologetic philosophy textbook for universities DOI:
https://doi.org/10.51216/2687‑072Х_2025_3_14–36. EDN: XAKYCW // Theological Collection of Tambov Theological Seminary. 2025, no. 3 (32). p. 14–36. (In Russian)
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