“I, thank god, am not a theologian...”: formation of Russian religious philosophy and origins of the concepts of western captivity of orthodox theology

The article is dedicated to the concept of the origin of Western captivity of Orthodoxtheology and its role in the development of Russian religious thought of the XIX -XX centuries. The first part shows that the main source of the classical formulationof the concept of protopope G. Florovsky is the ideas of Y. F. Samarin. In the secondpart article demonstrates the difficulty of explanation of the idea of ”Slavophilism”by Samarin and concludes on the need to find its source in the Russian culture of the20s - 30s of the XIX century. In the third part the author proposes the hypothesis thatthe concept was a tool for self-justification of religious and philosophical discourseof those who undergone religious conversion of the secular culture of Pushkin’s era.Their attitude towards the academic theological thought of their time is summarizedin a statement in the title of the article by P. Y. Chaadaev. It seems, however, that thisstatement indicates in this context more general problem of the relevance of commu-nication strategies of theological discourse, the relationship between the communityof writers and the community of the audience, the violation of which eventually gaverise to the concept under discussion. Although this concept played a significant rolein the development of identity of the Russian theological tradition, it is currently inneed of critical rethinking.