Riazantseva T. Theological foundations of teaching and education in modern evangelical educational institutions of the Euro-Asian Accreditation Association

The dissertation is devoted to the identification and critical analysis of the theological foundations of teaching and education, which are introduced in the system of Protestant institutions of higher theological education in Ukraine, belonging to the Euro-Asian Accreditation Association. Peculiarities of formation of Ukrainian Protestant theology of education are revealed, the development of which is stimulated by practical needs of critical rethinking of theological bases of teaching and teaching in order to overcome numerous crises of theological education in local context and adequate response to new challenges at global and national levels. The main formally stated principles of teaching and education in the system of institutions of higher theological education of Ukrainian Protestants for compliance with the biblical worldview and openness to the formation of students' intentions for missionary work in the post-Christian world as a general context are analyzed. It is proved that the uniform principles of education and upbringing also extended to educational institutions of the Ukrainian evangelical diaspora. It was found that the programs of individual theological schools of Ukrainian Protestantism always have their own unique features, and therefore the unification of the content and form of education, common understanding of theological foundations of teaching and education did not cause seminaries and other evangelical institutions of higher spiritual education to lose their own specifics. the traditions of teaching and education formed since 1990 or the missionary goals of these institutions today. The conclusions and theoretical positions obtained as a result of the dissertation research contribute to a deeper understanding of the processes taking place in the Ukrainian evangelical educational and theological environment in the late twentieth and early twenty-first century.