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The article analyzes the philosophical concepts presented in the works of the representatives of the Kazan school of spiritual and academic theism, dealing with the problems of marriage and family:  in particular, their understanding of biblical traditions in the conditions of socio-cultural and socio-economic realities. The basis of the material presented in the article was unpublished earlier works of Kazan researchers stored in the State archive of the Republic of Tatarstan. The author comes to the conclusion that in the Russian Empire, the representatives of spiritual and academic theism faced the task based on modern knowledge of sociology, pedagogy and psychology to give a philosophical answer to new challenges, to adapt traditional values according to the realities of life. The acquaintance of Kazan researchers with modern them ideas of Russian religious philosophy of the second half of the 19th – first half of the 20th centuries in which the family was associated with the highest moral value, the realization of love, with the commitment to excellence and integrity, fullness of being (N. Berdyaev, S. Bulgakov, B. Vysheslavtsev, V. Zenkovsky, I. Ilyin, N. Lossky, V. Solovyev, S. Troitsky, N. Fedorov, P. Florensky, G. Shimansky) had great importance for understanding the philosophical essence of family and marriage. In modern conditions of return to the bourgeois-capitalist relations, philosophical searches of Orthodox thinkers are interesting for understanding the problems and tendencies of development of family and marriage, thus representing a subject of not only historical or historical and theological research, but also historical and philosophical one. 

Keywords: Kazan Spiritual Academy, spiritual and academic philosophy, spiritual and academic theism, religious philosophy, family philosophy, philosophy of marriage

DOI: 10.22250/2072-8662.2019.4.91-95

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About the author 

 Oxana N. Kozhevnikova – senior lecturer at the Department of Special Disciplines,

Vladivostok branch of the Far Eastern Law Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia;

21 Kotel’nikovs St., Vladivostok, Russia, 690087; This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.