| Summary: | The article is devoted to the consideration of epistemological problems of religious tradition. The article fixes the antinomy of the model of the transmission of the Revelation in the Abrahamic religions. The author draws attention to the impossibility of interrupting the tradition due to the archithepic nature of its nature. As an example, the radical abolition of Judaic circumcision is analyzed as a decisive break with the main ritual of Judaism and its restoration as an act of initiation in Christianity. Thus, the interruption of the tradition of circumcision is fully preserved in Christianity, modifying only the form. The reverse process in the concept of religious traditionalism is also considered – the antinomy of the impossibility of transmitting Revelation in view of the epistemological and anthropological gap between the main agents of the religious tradition. The apostles understand Christ and therefore their writings are recognized as sacred, because Revelation is authenticated in them. But even the best of Christians understand the apostles, but even their writings are not fundamentally recognized as equal to the apostles. Although the authenticity of the Revelation reflected in their writings should not have allowed the canon to be regarded as fundamentally closed. The article reflects the problem of the ambivalence of the religious model of traditionalism. Since the emergence of Christian theology, a situation of double discourse has been revealed. One of them postulates the untouchable status of the corpus of the Sacred Texts, since the very necessity of possessing the Written Testament grows out of a premise about the fundamental abyss between God and man. The second discourse explores the perfect abolition of this relative distance by Jesus Christ. At the same time, scriptocentrism remains completely untouched. This antinomy provides Christians with the abovementioned epistemological problem.
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