The MThA teachers and students took part in the IX scientific and practical conference “Spiritual and moral culture in higher education. Church, State, Personality in History and Modernity”
On May 25, representatives of the Moscow Theological Academy took part in a scientific and practical conference held in the framework of the XXX International Educational Readings at the Peoples' Friendship University of Russia.
The scientific and practical conference became a result of joint efforts of the Moscow Theological Academy, the Educational Committee of the Russian Orthodox Church and the Peoples' Friendship University of Russia.
Priest Pavel Lizgunov, Vice-Rector for Academic Affairs, and a group of teachers and students represented the Moscow Theological Academy.
V.M. Filippov, President of the Peoples' Friendship University of Russia, opened a plenary session. Then, Archpriest Maxim Kozlov, Chairman of the Educational Committee of the Russian Orthodox Church, gave a report on “Cooperation between the Church and the State in Higher Education”.
After the end of the plenary session, the conference participants took part in topic sections.
Teachers and students of the Academy attended "The Evolution of the Secular World in Russia: Acquisition and Loss" section moderated by Priest Pavel Lizgunov, Vice-Rector for Academic Affairs of the Moscow Theological Academy.
The reports were presented by:
- P.E. Lipovetsky, PhD in Theology, Associate Professor of the Church History Department at the Moscow Theological Academy, "Secularization of marriage in the Russian royal families in the XVI-XVIII centuries";
- M.M. Shevtsov, a third-year undergraduate student of the Moscow Theological Academy, "Metropolitan Stephan (Yavorsky) and his resistance to Peter’s the Great reforms";
- I.E. Subtelny, a third-year undergraduate student of the Moscow Theological Academy, "Secular processes in theological education in the era of Peter's the Great reforms."
Another section "Becoming a Personality: Traditional Values, Freedom and Responsibility" was moderated by Igor A. Myachin, a first-year postgraduate student of the Moscow Theological Academy.
The reports were presented by:
- I.A. Myachin “The phenomenon of “bullying” in educational institutions through the prism of the mechanism of a “scapegoat” by R. Girard”;
- Ilya Cherkashin, a third-year undergraduate student of the Moscow Theological Academy, "The development of the Old Testament thanatology: from personified evil to the moral imperative."
All the reports provoked lively discussions and exchange of views. At the end, the participants expressed a hope to continue further cooperation between secular educational institutions and theological schools.
MThA Press Office