Stasyuk L. The Transformation of Ukrainian Calvinism Phenomenon in the System of Intercultural Interactions.

The thesis is an integral philosophical religious study of the transformation of Calvinism as a specific phenomenon of the Ukrainian spiritual culture. The work embraces the essence basic tendencies, emergence and functional being of Calvinism in the Ukrainian society under conditions of intercultural interactions. Spreading in western European and Ukrainian space Calvinism is acquiring new forms and features meeting historical, social, political, economic realities of countries of its existence and their ethnic cultural traditions the adaptation to which stipulates the periodization of the evolution of this early protestant denomination done by the author. The research suggests that Calvinism as a religious system reveals doctrinal stability, first of all, in anthropological and ecclesiastical teaching, in preserving initial structural and organizational means and dynamics of ideological cult and outside cult practice. Specifics are shown of the evolution of inter denominational relations and ecumenical potential of Ukrainian Calvinism representatives. On the basis of the comparative analysis was characterized the content, structural filling and type changes in the religions activity of representatives of the Transcarpathian Reformist Church in the context of praxeological dimensions.