Hagiographic literature as a practical pedagogy of orthodox culture

Abstract

Throughout the millennium, the phenomenon of Orthodox pedagogical culture has been developing in Russia. Its theory was formed on the basis of the generalization of the experience of religious and moral development and upbringing of personality, presented, among other things, in hagiographic literature. The purpose of the article is to characterize the dominant ideas of Orthodox pedagogical culture, based on examples from the practice of the lives of saints. The methodological basis of the research was philosophical and anthropological ideas - characteristics of a person as an individual personality; ideas about deterministic influence of axiology on spiritual culture, a variety of which is Orthodox pedagogical culture. As a result of analysis, the author concludes that hagiographic literature has a significant pedagogical potential, as it illustrates, from the point of view of the Orthodox faith, the built up activity of the individual; it illustrates the theoretical provisions and spiritual dominants of the Orthodox pedagogical culture, which reflect its value orientation, standards that serve as a basis for building and verification of the behavior of an Orthodox Christian. From this point of view, hagiographic literature can be called practical pedagogy in Orthodox culture and can be studied in order to fix and reproduce the standard height of the image of a spiritually and morally developed person.