From the history of Russian non-academic theology. Review of the monograph: Khondzinsky P., archpriest. "Tserkov' ne est' akademiia":russkoe vneakademicheskoe bogoslovie XIX veka. Moscow: St. Tikhon's University press, 2016. 480 pp

The article is a review of the monograph by Archpriest Pavel Khondzinsky «Tserkov' ne est' akademiia»: Russkoe vneakademicheskoe bogoslovie XIX veka ( “The Church is not an Academy”: Russian non-Academic Theology of the 19 th Century ), which contains a detailed analysis of the theological views of Russian thinkers of that time who did not receive a systematic theological education. The author's statements about the genesis and development of the phenomenon of Russian non-academic theology in the Synodal period are considered. The key socio-cultural and theological tendencies of the century that influenced the formation of lay theological thought in the Russian Empire are touched upon. Special attention is paid to the author's approach to the analysis of theological thoughts and tendencies of the Synodal period through the prism of the theory of confessionalization and the idea of a common socio-cultural field. The problem is posed of the mutual influence and differences between academic and non-academic theology, as well as the general critical attitude of secular thought in relation to the teacher's role of the Church and theological education, which influenced the nature of the formation of Russian non-academic theology.