The idea of personality in the Christian culture of the Middle Ages

The article is devoted to the analysis of the notion of personality in the light of the process of the making, the approaches to this idea in the ancient and medieval phylosophical traditions are considered. The author shows that understanding a person as a personality was prepared in the antiquity in the doctrines of the immortality of soul but it became possible only in the Christian philosophy in connection with the changing of temporal conceptions, on which culture is based and built, in the context of the doctrine of predestination. The idea of personality was formed in the conception about hypostasis and it is a central theme of the medieval philosophy.