Social concept of the Russian Orthodox Church: Church answer to challenges of time

Abstract

The article analyses the present day view of the Russian Orthodox Church on society and different spheres of its life, considers the key notions and categories in the Russian Orthodoxy social concepts, which are considered to be the landmarks in the Church and state relations and which characterize them. The following interviews are given in the appendices to the article: - with the Chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate department on relations between Church and society protoiereus Vsevolod Chaplin on the subject “Orthodoxy as a word to social life” (Appendix I); - with the Head of the Russian Orthodox Old Belief Church Your Eminence Kornily, the Metropolitan of Moscow and of the Whole Russia on the subject “Worldiness is not admissible.” (Appendix 2)