Pavel Khondzinsky Synthesis of Experimental Psychology and Metaphysics in the Russian Ecclesiastical Academies of the Second Half of the 19th Century: A.E. Svetilin and His Students Pavel Khondzinsky - Saint Tikhon's Orthodox University of the Humanities (Moscow, Russia). paulum@mail.ru The article examines the legacy of Professor Alexander Svetilin, in particular, his lectures in psychology. Psychology was one of the most popular disciplines in the ecclesiastical academies. Among Svetilin's students were future illustrious prelates such as metropolitan Antony (Khrapovitsky) and bishop Mikhail (Gribanovsky). In his lectures Svetilin discussed only the "phenomenology of the soul" i. e. empirical psychology, but despite this narrow subject he promoted some new and perspective theological paradigms. His students follow the thesis of Svetilin that philosophy, supplemented by empirical knowledge about a human being, will come to conclusions consistent with theology. This idea contributed to the origin of theological personalism which asserts that "personal" and "natural" are independent in the human being. It is likely, that this idea was for the first time advanced by bishop Mikhail (Gribanovsky) in his "Introductory lectures". Keywords: Alexander Svetilin, Antony (Khrapovitsky), Mikhail (Gribanovsky), psychology, scholarship in the ecclesiastical academies, personalism, Russian theology. I ИМЯ профессора Санкт-Петербургской духовной академии Александра Емельяновича Светилина теперь мало кому известно даже среди специалистов; так, в солидной диссертации И. В. Цвык "Духовно-академическая философия в Рос- стр. 152сии XIX в."1 оно не встречается вообще. Русский биографический словарь утверждает, что научные заслуги его были незначительны, и скорее он был хорошим педагогом2. И. Чистович в своей монографии, посвященной истории Санкт-Петербургской академии, также уделяет Светилину буквально несколько формальных слов3. Все это вполне объяснимо. Во-первых, Светилин мало печатал ... Читать далее