Russian Theological Scholarship during the Synodal Period in the Context of the Formation of the “Practical” Direction

This article is devoted to the analysis of the formation of the “practical” direction of Russian theological scholarship. Russian theological scholarship has passed a serious path in its historical development. The modern result of a developed theological educational system has its roots in the distant past, thanks to the analysis of which a modern researcher can come to a number of serious conclusions, as well as a number of important historical reconstructions. The purpose of this article is to analyze the historical development and formation of the practical profile in the higher theological pre-revolutionary school. A set of historical methods was used as the methodological basis of the study: historical-genetic and retrospective. In the course of the article, the author comes to a conclusion of the gradual development of the practical direction, starting with the reforms of the higher theological school in 1869.