Karpenko M. P. A. Florensky's concept of spiritual reality.

The thesis deals with the problem of spiritual reality in the metaphysics of P. A. Florensky. The investigation takes into consideration the peculiarities of Florensky's "round mentality" characteristic of his methodology and spiritual ontology. Highlighted are the main components of Florensky's "round mentality" giving rise to such form of mystical contemplation of spiritual reality as mythosymbol. A methodology of investigating Florensky's concept of spiritual reality based on the notion of mythosymbol is offered. A variant of complex reconstruction of the concept of spiritual reality based on the method of mythosymbolic analysis is offered. The concept of spiritual reality has been reconstructed through revealing the key issues of Florensky's metaphysics such as the structure of spiritual reality, christology, religious and anthropological aspects of anthropodicy, cult.