Anthropology of Love in Texts of the New Testament in the Light of the Modern Age

Introduction . The scientific problem of the nature and essence of human is raised on the basis of understanding the phenomenon of love in the texts of the New Testament. In the light of the monumental changes that modern humanity is experiencing, the issues of the relationship between Christian love and the sophic concept, their philosophical and theological foundations, are actualized. The purpose of the study is to draw attention to the deep meanings of love in the Gospel texts. Materials and Methods . Dialogue reading is used as a method of cognition, and through it the most important aspects of the human world are studied. Dialogueness has long been in philosophy the principle of understanding the world around us. From the standpoint of dialogue as a method of knowledge, human thinking, the sociocultural world, and its laws of contradiction are examined. General theoretical research methods, dialectical and historical approaches are also used. Results . It is justified to distinguish three eras of increasing interest to the mastering of the New Testament text in culture: the era of the approval of Christianity on the territory of the Roman Empire; the era of the Reformation, religious wars and bourgeois revolutions, and finally the modern era. The relationship between philosophical and theological foundations of the identity of love in Christianity as the highest virtue, uniting human with God and neighbor and Divine Wisdom, has been studied and analyzed. Discussion and Conclusion . The most important result in the development of the concept of anthropology of love in the texts of the New Testament was the combination of philosophical and theological aspects, philosophy and mysticism, in understanding the Divine nature of love, the sacralization of the theme of love. This concept occupies an important place in religious and philosophical reflections and writings of a number of Orthodox thinkers such as Vladimir Solovyov, Sergiy Bulgakov. In the Christian context, Sophia is often identified with the Divine Wisdom which is mentioned in the Old Testament, especially in the books of Proverbs, Wisdom of Solomon and Sirach.