“The author offers an original, albeit controversial, concept”. Review of the article: Legeev M., priest. Ecclesiology today: two models of the structure of the churches and their historical background. Proceedings of the department of theology of the Saint Petersburg Theological Academy, 2020, No. 2 (6), pp. 17-42

The present article is a review of the article by Priest M. Legeev “Ecclesiology Today: Two Models of the Structure of the Churches and their Historical Background”, in which Priest M. Nikulin, positively perceiving in general the project of developing a terminologically verified ecclesiology, criticizes some aspects of Priest M. Legeev’s system. First of all, the author of the review refuses to attribute Russian emigration theology to the camp of the opponents of the Church traditional doctrine. Secondly, he disputes the legitimacy of using the term “classical tradition of the Russian school,” recognizing the pluralism of Russian ecclesiologies. Thirdly, Priest M. Nikulin problematizes the traditionality of the “Christ-hierarchy-people” scheme declared in the article, as well as the issue of the genesis of church hierarchy. Finally, is posed the question of the Church hypostasis and the correlation of its mariological aspect with Priest M. Legeev’s concept.