Keyword: «christianity»

The paper deals with the relationship between the human spiritual life and external public forms of social organization. The importance of the fact that statehood in history arises precisely as a religious phenomenon is noted, the logic of its secularization is traced. The Christian understanding of the relationship between the Kingdom of God and the Kingdom of Caesar, which determines the development of European civilization as an ideal, is revealed.

This article considers the problem of world outlook formation in Middle Ages and in New History. The object of the study is relation of mystical and rational (faith and mind) in the framework of European Ontognostics. Relying on the heritage of patristics, as well as philosophical, anthropological and historical studies of foreign and domestic scholars the author makes a reconstruction attempt of the ontognostical searches from antiquity to the Renaissance, where semantic "center" is the doctrine about logos.