The basis of spiritual education in the pedagogical concept V. V. Zenkovsky

The article focuses on the pedagogical views of one of the greatest Russian religious philosophers V.V. Zenkovsky. It highlights the important value priorities of the educational traditions of the Russian school and their significance for the real progress. The article also highlights the cognitive aspect of the problem of the correlation of faith and knowledge in the pedagogical intentions of V. V. Zenkovsky, stresses the ethical vector of cognitive activity in the framework of the goal setting of Orthodox anthropology and the conceptual hierarchy of the Christian anthropological triad "body - soul - spirit." The principle of correspondence of educational problems to the stages of spiritual development of people is called as a key principle of the pedagogical innovations of V.V. Zenkovsky which have not lost their actuality.