Social-philosophical analysis of christian eschatology in the dialogue of public administration and theology

• Main Author: D. S. Martyshyn
• Format: Article
• Language: Russian
• Published: Grani 2019-04-01
• Series: Aspekti Publìčnogo Upravlìnnâ
• Subjects: eschatology; values; philosophy of history; state formation; theology; Christianity; globalization; religion; hope; politics; spiritual experience; Church
• Online Access: https://aspects.org.ua/index.php/journal/article/view/483
• ISSN: 2311-6420; 2413-8231

The article deals with the most important questions of the philosophy of history, the meaning of human life, questions about the purpose of history and issues related to Christian eschatology and public administration. The problems of the relationship between Christianity and culture, the role of man in history are covered in detail. Christian theology is organically combined with state administration, philosophy, history, forming as a result a unified Christian doctrine, in which the theological aspect is the most important facet of the philosophy of history of modern science. The author is convinced that history is a deep creative process, a way to comprehend spiritual meanings, and it’s not a spontaneous chain of random events. Today it is necessary to reconstruct the Christian eschatological prognostic, taking into account the achievements and developments of public administration, religious philosophy, political science, sociology and philosophy of history. The article is directly related to understanding the main aspects of Christian history in the context of state formation. And this growing scientific interest towards understanding the processes of Christian history is quite explicable. It is important to keep in mind that in an era of global challenges for mankind, more than ever, science increases the need to understand the entire complex and contradictory chain of historical events, to understand its eternal, absolute meaning, so as not to err in choosing the spiritual vectors for the further development of modern society. Eschatology returns to modern man not only faith in God, but also faith in the transformation of history itself, in the opportunity to build the life of the church community, family, working community, the state and the whole society in accordance with the values of their religion. A strategic initiative must come from the Church, which would indicate the prospect of restoring universal unity based on biblical revelation. The author insists that modern humanity in order to survive seems to require a serious transformation of the mass consciousness in the spirit of religious tradition. It can be said that history requires not only economic growth, financial well-being, but also the triumph of spirit, moral categories and religious values. Christian philosophy of history is not a teaching about impersonal mechanisms of world evolution (progress), not a set of political programs or ideological patterns that play a normative role in society, but a sermon on God, on eternal and absolute values of being, transforming the entire world history.