Kharkovshchenko E. Sofijnist' of the Kiev Christianity as a religious-philosophical, ethnic-national phenomenon.

The dissertation is a complete historio-sophiсal, philosophical and religion science research of essence, sources, transformation features in the Kiev Christianity, and later in Ukrainian and Russian orthodoxy of Sofijnist' phenomenon. In the dissertation are marked and investigated three periods of Sophia problematics: pre-Christian ideas of antiquity, Gnostic sophiological constructions and Christian sophiology, medieval mysticism and sophiology of Russian "philosophy of the unity". It is established, that to the Kiev Christianity there were inherent such peculiarities and features as Christian universalism, the tolerant attitude to the different religious centres in the East and the West, aversion of clerical messianism doctrine, Byzantine Caesar-popism and Roman pope-Caesarism, early-Christian orientation, Paulinism, as the form of Peculiarity objection of any people and accordingly church imperialism, working up a specifically Slavic ceremony, patriotism and Sofijnist'. Sophia Kiev-Christian sources of the Ukrainian thinkers' philosophizing are proved, representations of which G. Skovoroda, P. Yurkevich found in "philosophy of heart", and displays of Sophia doctrine on the basis of Russian mentality on its systematization and transformation to the concept "philosophy of the unity", the big merit of which belongs to such thinkers as V. Soloviyov, S. Bulgakov, P. Florens'ky. Sophiology in orthodox theology of the XX century is examined in a context of Orthodoxy-theological disputes around Sophia doctrine in the mid 1930's and because of the orthodox concept of "Christian service to the world" (1970's & 1980's).