Historism as the principle of religious knowledge

Abstract

Despite the desire of the theologians of various religious movements to prove the endurance and immutability of their confessional doctrine and worship, their search for the criterion of orthodoxy of these elements of the religious complex in their turning forms, the transformation of religious systems (and especially the world) remains an indisputable phenomenon. Even the orthodoxy, to which Orthodoxy seeks to go, collapses when it collides with the national tradition in the world of its distribution. And though in the same way, the same Christianity would not have sought to preserve identity to its turning point, but its entire history, beginning with the 1st century BC, is characterized by the emergence of various trends, "schism," "heresies," the rejection and organizational separation of the entire directions expressed dissatisfaction with either the dominant line of his functional being in society, whether certain innovations in his development, or the subjective factor of a certain denomination, etc. That is why, when studying the religious phenomenon in general, and especially its confessional modifications, it is important to adhere to the principle of historicism, carefully to analyze those internal changes, which ultimately determine the relative stability of world religious systems.