This dissertation is a philosophical and religious research of the concept of "sufferability" in the world view system of the Orthodox Faith, carried out on the material of patristic tradition of the IV - VIII-th centuries, Byzantine tradition of hesychasm of the VIII - XIV-th centuries, and also theoretical heritage of foreign and home theologians, religious thinkers of the XIV - XX-th centuries. The establishing of the religious and philosophical ideas and concepts, that form the idea of sufferability in the writings of religious thinkers and theologians within the Orthodox spiritual and cultural tradition has been analyzed in the research work. The logic of forming of the concept of sufferability, which is based on lexical and ideological (religious and philosophical) proximity of the concepts of "passion" and "suffering", which are the authentic meanings of the Greek, has been watched. The multicomponent contaminating structure of the concept of sufferability, presented by the row of modifications, connected with each other by the sense, set on the base of semantic analysis of the Greek words and their equivalents in the old church slavonic language, modern Ukrainian, Russian and other Slavic languages : pain, suffering, sorrow, grief, illness, trouble, loss, guilt, hoodoo, exploit, torment, melancholy, alarm, fear and other, has been found out. The ontological ground of sufferability, based on the concept about dialectics of "creature" and "not creature" and the derivative from it the idea of the absence of dimension between God and man, has been found out. The aspect of constituting of sufferability as the essence feature of existence of a man and the whole created world, that is specified in a fall as changing the sufferability into substance by the taking root of passion, the procedural character of a sin and its consequences (sorrow, illnesses, suffering and death) in the nature of a man, has been defined. It was found out that the existential forms of sufferability are marginal manifestations of passion, sin, loss, grief, suffering, sorrow, repentant crying, despair, feeling of being left by God, struggle, missing God, call of God, looking for a sense, death, pain, etc., which have spiritual and creative potential. Cosmological, epistemological, soteriological, eschatological aspects of the idea of sufferability are reflected in the context of the Orthodox Faith and anthropological reflection through which the general world view tendencies concerning the transformation of manifestations of sufferability into Christian spiritual values and virtues (patience, humility, fear of God, faith, hope, love) were established. It is proved that in the ancient Ukrainian philosophy, which maintains a root connection with the ascetic Byzantine tradition, the idea of sufferability is determined by the disclosure of the content of the main types of Orthodox asceticism which are both ranks of holiness and modifications of sufferability because they all have the content of patience of suffering, torment, pain, grief, sadness and so on. The synthesis of the essence and existential modes of sufferability in the Ukrainian Orthodox and anthropological discourse of the XVII - XX-th centuries is affirmed, what the idea of the rising of religious, spiritual and secular activity of the individual in his aspiration to restore the ontological integrity of being, moral self-improvement and national identity, provides.
