RUDN Journal of Language Studies, Semiotics and Semantics (Dec 2014)
Religious concept of «salvation» in Russian culture (on the basis of religious, philosophical and literary discourses)
Abstract
The article deals with the peculiarities of the religious concept «salvation» within spiritual values of the representatives of the Orthodox religion, it examines the original form of the lexeme salvation , identifies the shades of meaning that appear in the perception of the religious concept through the certain symbols of the Holy Bible, in the works of Russian philosophers and literary texts. As a leading research method, theoconceptological analysis is used that helps to represent the concept «salvation» as a multi-leveled and multi-dimensional semantic formation.