Apologetic and educational tasks of Orthodox theology in regards to F. M. Dostoevsky’s spiritual insights (on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the writer’s birth)

The article attempts to define the most important tasks of modern Orthodox theology by analyzing spiritual insights great Russian writer and philosopher F. M. Dostoevsky. thinker wrote about need educate people in a Christian spirit order for them fulfill their worldwide mission. university today is being formed conditions worldview, ideological religious pluralism. Differentiation theological science education on basis confessions optimal current situation according author article. For theology, theoretical methodological foundation should be, first all, Holy Scripture Tradition, richest experience Eastern Christianity transmitted Ancient Rus Byzantium, patristic works many brilliant theologians. Also, intellectual achievements philosophers, who, not without mistakes, strove transfer heritage thought into secular language be included. analysis Dostoevsky’s literary works, diaries, notebooks, one distinctive representatives metaphysics, determined conclusion that are apologetic enlightenment. They aimed at protecting faith from multitude myths developed during period apostasy. In addition, these meant cultivate knowledge Orthodoxy other traditional religions Russia, both among young older generations.