The symbolic foundations of Christian culture. The experience of sociocultural analysis

The symbol proposed to the attention of readers of the scientific monograph is considered as the most capacious and significant, productive and concentrated form of expression of cultural values ​​and meanings that a person lives and which determines the development and functioning of culture. In the context of the designated cultural and historical challenges of modernity, the question of the content of the human person, the final goals of human being and the highest values ​​of human life naturally arises. It is this issue that is the main thing in the plane of the socio-cultural understanding of modernity and becomes an urgent problem of self-awareness of postmodern culture in the field of historical sociological and theological research.
The Christian symbol is understood by the author as one of the main philosophical and cultural concepts expressed through the paradigm of historical experience, revealing its spiritual and moral basis in different genres of religious art and culture