Personalistic paradigm of the orthodox theology of the 20th-21st centuries and natural religious philosophical thought

The article reveals the biblical and patristic foundations of Christian ideas about the highest ontological status and the highest value of each human person against the background of the impersonal vision of God and man characteristic of natural religious philosophical thought. The empirically based perception of the person as an individual and the leveling universality of logical laws are considered to be the epistemological foundations of natural religious consciousness leading to pantheistic conclusions about the determinacy of people by both higher divine realities and the visible world. In patristic Trinitarian theology, the One God antinomically appears before man as three Divine Persons, constituting their identity in hypostatic relations. Moreover, the intra-Trinitarian personal perfection is revealed in the created world by the Second Divine Person - the Son, who has accepted human nature and exists in the same fullness of love in communion with human persons, which is characteristic of His communion with the Father and the Holy Spirit. Thus the concept of the person in Orthodox Trinitarian theology and Christology receives the unconditionally highest ontological content. Proceeding from this mainstream patristic theological line, Orthodox theologians of the 20th-21st centuries develop theological anthropology in the biblical perspective of affirming the crucial importance of personal faith, trust, fidelity, and love for both Divine and human persons.