Religion and Church in the vision of Ivan Franko. To the Frankivsk anniversaries in 2016

• Main Author: Anatolii M. Kolodnyi
• Format: Article
• Language: Russian
• Published: Ukrainian Association of Researchers of Religion (UARR) 2015-12-01
• Series: Українське Pелігієзнавство
• Online Access: https://uars.info/index.php/uars/article/view/595

In the well-known worldview and praxeologic typology of the Ukrainian man, which was held by M. Shlemkevich, the Frankivsk man is absent. At the same time, the researcher does not substantiate his vision of the peculiarities of the religiosity of Ivan Franko. Rather, he proceeded from the identification of free-thinking with atheism and did not recognize the existence of religious free-thinking among Ukrainians. Meanwhile, it is dominant. The fact is that the Church somehow perceive freedom of religion, freedom of religion, but each of them does not allow itself freedom In religion, freedom In its religion. Any deviation from the dogmas or canons, the arbitrary interpretation of certain provisions of the doctrine, and especially the anti-clericalism, is perceived as heresy, and ultimately qualifies as atheism. That is why Ivan Franko was uncomfortable with the church leadership of the Greek Catholics of Galicia, and the Orthodox enjoyed his works, where he criticized the Vatican, his policy on Slavs. About the work of the thinker, in which they considered worldview problems, did not even speak