CHURCH AND STATE IN THE DISCOURSE OF THE FUTURE OF THE UKRAINIAN NATION: PHILOSOPHICAL AND AXIOLOGICAL OBJECTIVATION OF THE PROBLEM

Goal. The research is aimed at carrying out a comprehensive analysis of modern forms and practices of interaction between religious organizations operating in Ukraine, the Church and the State through the prism of the philosophical discourse of the future of the Ukrainian nation. Scientific novelty. An important element of novelty was the substantiation of the need to deepen the cooperation of the state and society with Ukrainian-centric churches and religious organizations, because it is easier for them to concentrate their efforts in the conditions of war on providing moral and psychological assistance, solving complex social and material problems of the military. The leading novelty is the proof of the thesis that the Church in Ukraine should be nationally oriented, that is, Ukrainian-centric, because this is the guarantee of its spiritual security and the main mechanism of de-occupation. The key elements of the novelty of the article also include the theoretical development of new mechanisms for constituting a new model of their cooperation with civil society and, on the contrary, the development of a paradigm of non-interference and non-interference in each other’s spheres, but instead of effective performance of immanent and legally justified functions by each of them. Conclusions. A critical understanding of the ideological and value basis for the search for the so-called modus vivendi (life, existence), that is, the existence of religion and the Church in a country that suffers from armed aggression, occupation and annexation of significant territories determined, in particular, by religious-ideological factors and church-imperialist ambitions of Muscovy, gives reason to assert that fermenting mainly inherited atheist models of state policy, the power structures in Ukraine, in fact, all the time since the restoration of state independence speculated on the problem of religious self-determination of Ukrainians, their autocephalous aspirations and struggles to build the Ukrainian Patriarchate as an independent Ukrainian local church. The politicization of religion and the religiosity of politics are phenomena that in recent years have become dominant in the system of relations between the Church and the State, and this clearly resonates with the concept of a pluralistic society, as well as when it comes to the constitutional rights and freedoms of Ukrainian citizens.