Destructive Phenomena of Modernity in the Prism of Christian Anthropology

Modern culture emphasizes destructive forms of human mental state, actively studying them and allowing a person to consider himself in the process of “illness”. Spiritual understanding of man and his nature allows us to say that destructive vectors of human behavior and social processes are not a natural (“normal”) state, but a consequence of the original damage by sin. In the light of Christian anthropology, overcoming destructive tendencies is possible only in the vector of “healing” human states — i. e. through the return of integrity, which includes value and existential aspects. The constructive possibilities of the Christian anthropological model in relation to the “healing” of a person’s destructive choice can enter as additional elements that replenish the diversity and systematicity of the philosophical and anthropological interpretation of human nature. Here we should take into account the ontological factors of influence on human nature, which are implied by the religious paradigm: “healing” of a person occurs through natural involvement in the spiritual (repentance, participation in the sacraments of the Church, restoration of unity with other people).