Tsymbal O. Christian ethics in the context of traditional moral culture.

The thesis notifies the investigation of Christian ethics as cultural phenomena in the light of its emerging, settlement and transformation. In the work the denominative moral and ethic peculiarities are determined at the level of elevated moral as well as at the level of common everyday life. The following components of morality are mentioned in this work, such as natural morality and Christian morality. The study of Christian morality allowed us to distinguish such its forms as ethos of the holies, monastic ethos, traditional Christian ethos, Catholic ethos, Orthodox ethos, Protestant ethos. In the process of investigation the correlation of official Christianity and traditional Christianity, official culture and traditional culture, correlation of monastic and secular basis of asceticism have been analyzed. The thesis considers modern prospects of Christian ethics.