On the Question of the Philosophical-Theological Interpretation of the Institute of Monasticism, the Practice of Ascension and Asceticism in the Works of Domestic Thinking Monks

Abstract

Monuments of spiritual and material culture of the Kievan Rus state, later periods of national history show that the general principles of Christian monasticism became known here at the same time as the first information about Christianity itself - first spontaneously, spontaneously, through the Greek colonies of Crimea, trade routes from the south, to the south. Greece, Macedonia and Serbia, and later, under the official baptism of Vladimir - through monasticism, clergy, hierarchs in Greek-Byzantine missions and the clergy settled in Kyiv cities - already as a conscious enyy and steady process of transferring the n soil of the new religion and its basic spiritual and material institutions.