Modern Study of Ancient Latin Church Tradition

The reviewed project “Latin Church Tradition of the 4th-7th Centuries in the Modern Scientific and Theological Context” is aimed at updating the church heritage of the Latin West of the late antique and early medieval period in the context of modern Orthodox theology. The authors study features of ecclesiological thought and the development of the system of church organization in the Latin West in the 4th–7th centuries, the specifics of the early Latin ascetic, mystical and eschatological tradition and the reception of the Latin church heritage in Russian theology in the 19th–20th centuries. Research on a theological project carried out by ten scholars from Saint Tikhon's Orthodox University of the Humanities (Archpriest P. Khondzinsky (leader), priest A. Posternak, G.E. Zakharov, M.V. Gratsiansky, A.G. Nebolsin, A.V. Anashkin, M.Yu. Birkin, N.A. Kulkova, E.V. Materova, I.S. Redkova) has highlighted the importance of the ancient Christian heritage of the Latin West for the development of pan-European heritage and culture, and in particular, Russian theological thought.