MThA Vice-Rector for Academic Affairs took part in a scientific conference

On October 15, Smolensk State University hosted a three-day All-Russian scientific conference "Church history science in Russia in the XIXth - early XXIst Centuries: institutes, schools, issues" chaired by the Metropolitan of Smolensk and Dorogobuzh Isidor and Mikhail Nikolayevich Artemenkov, Rector of the University. 

The number of participants included representatives of the Institute of General History of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Institute of History of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow State University, Russian State Humanitarian University and other scientific and educational institutions of Moscow, St. Petersburg, Smolensk, Kursk, Samara, Tolyatti, Chelyabinsk, Novosibirsk, Grodno and Sakhalin. 

The speakers discussed various aspects of a church history development in Russia and dealt with problematic issues of the different periods in historiography.

Priest Pavel Lizgunov, Acting Vice-Rector for Academic Affairs, presented the Moscow Theological Academy. He made a presentation at the plenary session on the "Study of Russian patristic writing in Russia and abroad: a historical review."

In his report, Priest Pavel told about the recent interest in "Russian patrology" as a part of theological science and highlighted the background of its formation in Russian, Soviet, foreign science and in the midst of Russian emigration. At the end, the speaker touched upon the question of the methodological specifics between the history of ancient and modern Russian literature, and the way it differs from Russian patrology. He also stated some prospects for further development.

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