Theological historicism: aspects of the relationship between Christianity and history

The article deals with the problem of the meaning of the historical process, the fundamental foundations of which are found in the religious and spiritual worldview. The desensitization of history in modern culture is acquiring a strategic scope, and these trends need to be opposed by spiritual alternatives to the true meaning of history. In accepting the meaning of history, in the very process of its search, the degree of maturity of the methodology of historical research is revealed. The most effective action, as it seems, in overcoming the modern trends of anomie of history should be the activation of the resource of Christian-sacred historicism. One example of genuine Christian historicism is the Symbol of Faith as a historical phenomenon and as a phenomenon that transforms history. The openness of history, deep historical intuitions, the refined mechanism of spiritual and historical memory-continuity, the resource of grace-dynamic transformation of history and other concepts determine the specifics of Christian-theological historicism (Theo-historicism). Theological historicism is able to maintain an adequate spiritual understanding of history, offers its own, Church-verified, methods of truth of history, allowing to reveal the sacred meanings of historical victories and defeats. The foundations of Theo-historicism require further development, it is rather a set of questions, rather than the existing systemic answers. At this stage, the primary task is to model the contours of the situation of questioning the essence, methodology, professional prospects of Theo-historicism.