Ancient Origins of Rational Theology. Research Experience in the Project of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research

Rational theology has a number of universal characteristics. These characteristics, as well as the reasons for their emergence, are the subject of study of the research group of the project 21-011-44178 " Development of Rational Theology in Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages". The publication is a generalization of the experience of researchers, primarily in the context of the specifics of the emergence and existence of rational theology and its universals in the Greco-Roman era and in the early Middle Ages. Antique religion was not orthodoxy, but primarily orthopraxy. The rationalization of beliefs resulted in clarifying the meaning of religious practices not on behalf of the holders of such practices, i.e. the priests, but through intellectuals – primarily philosophers.