The practice of the interpretation of eschatological images in the conditions of political competition

The article presents the logics and the results of investigating the practice of creating the interpretations of biblical eschatological images formed with the support on the methods of Christian hermeneutics, but influenced by political factors. Creating politically engaged commenting forms of these images, projecting them on definite states or nations gave the possibility to present these states and nations as instruments of infernal powers, antagonists of the good and adherents of the evil. Especially often such treatings were formed by politically engaged persons during the oppositions of their states and nations. It allowed them to interpret these oppositions in the categories of the fight between good and evil in the light of the terms of sacred God-pleased fight. In the frames of this investigation the main hermeneutical methods were cleared up and noted with the support on which the politically conditioned models of the interpretation of numerous most important biblical eschatological images were formed; were given the historical examples suitable to its aim. This investigation differs from preceding theological investigations of the experience of interpreting the above mentioned images by the use of the political semiohermeneuticalmethods that allow to take into account the political context and wider - the political intention of the authors of the investigated hermeneutical models, in which its scientific innovation is seen.