Творчество и развитие общества в XXI веке: взгляд науки, философии и богословия

The article is focused on the divergence between the clerical and the secular in all fields of culture – in science, art, education – which, according to many great Christian thinkers should be overcome. The author discusses this problem on the material of art creation, mainly in the fine arts, and finds the basis of unity between clerical (or liturgical) and secular in the phenomenon of synergy that engenders all genuine creation. Artistic creation is considered as one of the possible ways of spiritual self-perfection.

Keywords: creation, artistic creation, clerical and secular art, synergy, picture, icon, portrait.

Mukhina Valeria S., Phenomenology of Scientific Creativity

Such personal features of humans as self-creation and self-standing that predetermine their creative capacity get in the focus of discussion. Socio-historical conditions influence the development of personal creative activity. They are looked upon in the context of realities of the material world, the world of images and signs and the natural world that are transformed throughout history by the impact of human consciousness into socio-normative realities. Evolutional and historical preconditions of creativity are discussed under the conviction that the inner position of individual is of importance as it is part of the creative activity which manifests specifically human activity. Creativity is linked to the feeling of personal identity and is based on knowledge, on inner spiritual life attitude and on the natural human faculty of inquiry and discovery.

Keywords: self-consciousness, external reality, idea field of public consciousness, important ideas, the ambivalence of creativity, spiritual acme, syncretic objective, social freedom, intellectual freedom.

Mumrikov Oleg, Archpriest, Creation as the problem of the beginning: a dialogue of theologians and cosmologists in the 20^th -21^st centuries

In the present article aspects of judgement of creation of the world in the context of dialogue between science and Orthodox tradition in 20^th-21^st centuries are considered. Possible prospects of construction of a complete sight of Church in such both difficult and many-sided phenomenon of scientific thought as modern cosmology are presented.

Keywords: apologetics, cosmology, Creation, science and religion.

Mysyk Alexander D., Religious and Church Art: Differences in Understanding of the Artistic activity

The article analyzes the differences in understanding artistry on the example of icon painting development in the Orthodox Church and its transformation in the Roman Catholic Church in the religious art of iconography. It is asserted that the sacred images (icons, frescoes, etc.) are substantiations of dogmatic theology and their function – is to that of liturgical art. Fathers of the 7^th Ecumenical Council stated that icon painting finds its roots in the Christological doctrine of the Church. This means that the hypostatic image of God-Man Jesus is the cornerstone of icon-painting, it is Christ. After that come the hypostatic images of the Virgin, the angels and the saints. Icon expresses the Orthodox anthropology, which is understood as the human implementation of Godly likeness – the meaning and purpose of human existence. Distorting the hypostatic image depersonalizing it, turning it into a scheme and abstraction, fine art expresses unorthodox teachings and contributes to the rooting of false teachings.

Keywords: Holy scripture, Church narration, tradition, icon painting dogmas, Caroling books, Frankfurt, Paris and Second Vatican ecumenical Councils, iconoclasm, apostasy, temple, interior.

Nemchinov Victor M., Society and Personality: Mechanisms of Consciousness Boosting and Blocking Development of Talent

The paper continues the discussion started at the latest Dubna conference dedicated to artistry in human activities and goes into dichotomy of creativity and artistry revealing their opposition. Factors required for the growth of talent – as well as circumstances obstructing talented work substituting it by the social demand for creativity manifest in the globalized consumerist society of presently dominant symbolic exchange – are discussed. This analysis is crowned by the concept of personality which emerges in the process of unrestrained growth of human ingenuity and talent.

Keywords: process of human artistry, creativity, work deprived of talent, creator, professionalism, spirituality, dialogue with the Other.