Content

Preface

Part I. Theological Education in the Past and Present

Problems and Tasks of the Russian Orthodox Theological School

I. Curricula

1) The Holy Scriptures

2) Dogmatic Theology

3) Mystical Theology

4) Asceticism

5) Patrology

6) Philosophy

7) Liturgics

8) Homiletics

9) Comparative Theology

10) World Religions

11) Ancient and Modern Languages

12) Some other academic disciplines

II. Educational process

1) Lecture, seminar, special course, exam

2) Independent work

3) Specialization. Master's and doctoral studies

4) Student exchange. Study abroad

5) Physical education

6) Discipline. Attitude of teachers to students

7) Monastic presence in the theological school

8) Piety

Conclusion

Spiritual Education in the Christian East in the Fourteenth Century

1. The Apostolic Community as a "Spiritual School"

2. The Christian Spiritual School of the Hellenistic World

1) Alexandrian catechetical school of the thirteenth century

2) Origen and his concept of the theological school

3. The Theological School of the Syrian East

1) Syriac Christian Education

2) Disciplinary Rules of the Nisibis School

Conclusion

Problems of the Theological School at the Turn of the XIX and XX Centuries: Eyewitness Testimonies

1. Metropolitan Anthony (Khrapovitsky): "The school does not develop either a Christian mood or a pastoral spirit"

2. Metropolitan Eulogius (Georgievsky): "It is impossible to educate youth by strictness and fear alone"

3. Metropolitan Veniamin (Fedchenkov): "The old schools did not know how to educate us"