НОВІТНІ ВИКЛИКИ ПЕРЕД ХРИСТИЯНСТВОМ ХХІ СТ.

Abstract

У науковій статті автор дає характеристику новітнім викликам перед християнством, що постають у ХХІ сторіччі. Приділяється увага гендерній ідеології, поширенню ЛГБТ мислення. Автор акцентує увагу на подвійному трактуванні терміна «гендер». Часто дослідники цей термін сприймають як боротьбу за права людини і громадянина, дотримання громадянської рівності. Крім того, активно розвиваються гендерні дослідження в історичному аспекті. Крім того, представники українських церков та низка громадських діячів стривожені поширенням так званих «Фестивалів рівності», які насправді не демократизують, а навпаки – десакралізують суспільство. Небезпечно, що «Фестивалі рівності» останніми роками ширяться і в Україні. Впродовж 2016–2017 рр. такі фестивалі відбулися (або їх готували) у Львові, Києві, Дніпрі, Одесі і Запоріжжі. In the scientific article, the author gives a description of the latest challenges facing Christianity that appear in the 21century. Attention is drawn to gender ideology, LGBT thinking. The author focuses on the double interpretation of the term «gender». Often by researchers, this term is perceived as a struggle for human rights and citizen, respect for civic equality. It seems that in the twenty first century, ensuring gender equality becomes a priority social and political direction for the development of the world, and overcoming inequalities between men and women and gender equality in all spheres of life. Gender ideology is becoming more and more popular in Ukraine. There are gender studies in many higher educational institutions, and this theory is taught in the form of scientific institutions in which teachers, journalists, state functionaries are trained. In addition, gender studies are actively devel oping in historical terms. However, the spread of gender knowledge that unfolds in Ukraine does not receive a clear positive perception. Many Ukrainian scholars, public political and religious church figures are strongly critical of the establishment of gender ideology. They believe that gender ideology advocates the deconstruction of man as a biologically determined creature, thereby contributing to the deconstruction of the tradi tional concept of the family, and the deconstruction of the very concept of man. The author of the article believes that now it is necessary to distinguish the terms: “gender policy”, «gender studies» and, in fact, «gender ideology». In addition, representatives of Ukrainian churches and a number of public figures are alarmed by the spread of so called «Festivals of equality», which in reality do not democratize, and vice versa desacralize society. It is dangerous that the «Festivals of equality» have been increasing in Ukraine in recent years. During 2016 2017 such festivals took place (or were being prepared) in Lviv, Kiev, Dnipro, Odessa, Zaporozhye. On July 16, 2015, the Head of the UGCC, Svyatoslav Shevchuk, addressed a letter to the Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, chairman of the Constitutional Commission of Volodymyr Groisman on the amendments to the Constitution of Ukraine. The clergyman expressed regret that the Constitutional 411 The Carpathians: populace, ethnos, civilization 2017–2018. – Vol. 7–8. Commission’s Working Group on Human Rights did not take into account the proposals for amendments to the Constitution of Ukraine, which was expressed by the All Ukrainian Council of Churches and Religious Organizations in a special letter. The author believes that Ukrainians should learn to distinguish between the positive and the challenges of the European sociocultural space.