Волинський благовісник (Oct 2019)
Unlearned lessons of the twentieth century
Abstract
The second of this cycle’s suggested articles refers to the leading concepts of the formation of the basic principles and organizational formation of the UAOC in the era, which its famous twentieth-century diasporic humanitarian Yury Lavrynenko referred to as the Executed Renaissance. The most devastating blow to Soviet-Russian totalitarianism was suffered not by the purely intellectual, but by the spiritual and intellectual elite of Ukraine, which on a large scale revived the millennial Orthodox discourse in the socio-historical conditions aggressively unfavourable to the least meaningful manifestations of Ukrainian spiritual-national identity. The UAOC’s revival was inherently a safeguard for the existence of the Ukrainian nation even when the consciousness of Ukrainians was subdued by imperial and - most fiercely - closely related godless chimeras, and the nation’s being – by a totalitarian terror, Ukraine lost its statehood once again. This inevitably led to the further unfolding of millions of genocidal repression. Thus, the phenomenon of the UAOC in the totalitarian era deserves paramount analytical attention in the latest socio-humanitarian, and especially theological, religious, philosophical and Ukrainian ethnographic, cultural and historical studies, in the centre of which in the moment of emergence of the OCU, should be A comprehensive analytical study of the guiding ideological principles of the UAOC, the teachings of metropolitans, bishops, evangelists who were not put into practice in the 1920s and beyond, but are of great value for the construction of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine in the twenty-first century and beyond. The article provides insight into the revival of Ukrainian Orthodoxy on the other side of the diary testimonies that come from that period. Particularly, that refers to the reception by the Vice-President of the UUAN, Academician S. O. Efremov of the ideological world and existence of the Ukrainian Orthodox priesthood. The ideas of the poet-thinker Yevgeny Malaniuk also occupy a proper place in the ideological and analytical understanding of the problems of this article.
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