Spiritual and moral education in the concept of orthodox pedagogy of Archpriest Vasily Zenkovsky
This article analyzes the approach to the problem of spiritual and moral education, developed by one of the prominent church leaders of the Russian Diaspora, Archpriest Vasily Zenkovsky. For a long time, his name was little known, and his creative heritage was not in demand due to a number of features of scientific and political activity. Zenkovsky was an Orthodox teacher and psychologist. From the standpoint of V. Zenkovsky's pedagogy, one should clearly understand the complexity of the hierarchical structure of a person, in which the spiritual and physical principles are equally combined. The narrowly materialistic approach that was implanted in the Soviet era excluded any manifestation of religiosity in science, especially in pedagogy, since it was responsible for the formation of the inner world, the value system and worldview of a small person, the future builder of communism. The limitation of domestic pedagogy by ideological framework ended with the collapse of the Soviet Union. There was an opportunity to rethink the work of “untouchable” authorities, to get acquainted with the creative heritage of scientists from the Russian Diaspora. It was then that the names of many emigrant scientists, including Archpriest V. Zenkovsky, returned to Russian pedagogical science. His Orthodox (religious) worldview leaves its mark on all scientific activity, filled with the preaching of the Word of God.