The Philosophical Meaning of Christianity – the Basis of the Formation of European Mentality

Abstract

The article is devoted to interpretation of the tenets of the Christian worldview as the basis for the identity formation of European culture. The content of this category of philosophy as a world Outlook program, which represents an organic unity of theoretical philosophy and social technologies of its implementation. Christian socio-ideological values and meanings represented historically and logically as the Foundation of European culture. These meanings constituted the matrix of European culture as a civilization of a special kind, becoming the basis of zhizneobitanija European man not only in the Middle ages, but in the next century, the history of Europe up to the present time.

Keywords

• value
• society
• ideology
• worldview entertainment
• Christianity
• culture