On the real and imaginary problems of the reception of theological personalism: response to the invitation to the conversation begun in the collection “The birth of personalism from the spirit of the modern times”

This article presents the results of the analysis of the collection of articles “The Birth of Personalism from the Spirit of the Modern Times”, which was published by The theological faculty of St. Tikhon’s Orthodox University of Humanities, and is devoted to the problems of reception by Orthodox theology of this line of thought of the 19th - 20th centuries as a theological personalism. The problem under consideration is relevant in the light of the discussion between supporters and opponents of the personalistic approach to theology, which escalated on the eve of the Council of Crete. The authors of this collection, based on the obvious categorical proximity of theological personalism with philosophical theories of Modern times, draw conclusions about the ideological continuity of the considered direction of thought from modern theories, and question the continuity of personalism from the Church tradition. According to the author’s point of view these conclusions are not sufficiently reasoned because of the methodological inconsistency of the problems of the collection, and so its content...