Higher Attestation Commission first adopted theology as an academic discipline. This coincided with the fact that yesterday, January 22, Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill opening Christmas parliamentary meetings called deputies to contribute to the process of approval of theology in that capacity. He reiterated that the defense of the thesis in a church school is not accepted in the WAC for approval.
“You can be a master, and can not be a doctor – just because someone refuses to include theology, the theology of the list of scientific disciplines,” – he complained. Approval of documents that describe the main directions of the profession and the key requirements, was carried out for a long time – since April 2010.
Meanwhile, confer titles of theologians still planned on conventional humanities: philosophy, history, sociology, pedagogy, philology and cultural studies. Candidates and doctors of the theological sciences will not. Approval process theology as an academic discipline is supposed to be completed by the end of 2015.
“It was decided that the object of study is – it is theology. But theology must be considered and introduced as a specialty with existing approaches for decades when assigning degree PhDs produced by historical science, in philosophy defended by of Social Sciences, for Educational Sciences and Cultural Sciences “, – said the chairman of the WAC Vladimir Filippov, as quoted by the ” Interfax “.
In an interview with Tass, he noted that theology as an academic specialty is introduced in Russia for the first time. At the same time students already studying in its universities, so the construction of the subject to the rank of scientific specialty and study it in graduate school is a natural, the head of the WAC. A situation where learn and get a diploma can, and continue to study in graduate school can not be contrary to the principles of the education system, he said. Filippov also noted that scientific specialties in Russia about 400, and theology will be one of them.
Earlier, a large part of the scientific community in Russia has repeatedly criticized a proposal to impose a scientific specialty as theology. In a message to Russian President Vladimir Putin, under which, in particular, have subscribed Nobel laureates Jaures Alferov and the late Vitaly Ginzburg, the introduction of theology at the WAC has been named one of the hallmarks of “clericalization of Russian society.”
“On what basis, one wonders, theology, a set of religious dogma, should rank as scientific disciplines? Any scientific discipline operates with facts, logic, proofs, but not faith,” – says the author of the letter.
Supporters of the “rehabilitation” of theology, on the other hand, emphasize that theology – not a set of dogmas, but a complete science, without which no serious study of philosophy, history of religions, and even philology. The members of the working group for the preparation of “scientific passport” theology recognize that convince the academic community was not easy.
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