INTEGRATION OF CHRISTIAN PRACTICES OF SOCIAL SERVICE IN THE SPACE OF INTERFAITH DIALOGUE: OPPORTUNITIES AND PROSPECTS
Authors:   VIadimir State University named after A. G. and N. G. Stoletovs, VIadimir, Russia, Arsenina O.V. 
Published: March 2021

The article considers the possibility of integrating the practices of social charitable service of Christian confessions into the inter-confessional dialogue. The phenomenon of «social service» is considered as a developed objectivity of Being, «interfaith dialogue» as an objectivity of becoming available for reflexive penetration of the Dialogue. Constructive inclusion of interfaith dialogue in the problems of social service can become a source of new ideas and philosophical reflection. The relevance of this problem lies in the creative search and justification of adequate ways to include in the discourse of interfaith dialogue topical issues of social service practices of Christian denominations: generating and promoting new forms of assistance, sharing experience, communication, etc. The purpose of the article is to study the potentials of interfaith dialogue in the optimization of social service practices. The author’s task is to show that the experience of serving Christian confessions, focused on the formation of common value-semantic bases, and its communicative processes, goes beyond the understanding of the phenomenon of «social service», only as a tool of religious experience. The article presents a discursive analysis of the possibility of including interfaith dialogue in the issues of social practices of charitable service. The practical significance lies in the application of the research results to the activities of Church institutions, the development of specialized methods for building an interfaith dialogue on the practices of charitable service of Christian denominations. The results of the study may be of interest for practical application. A discursive analysis of the possibility of including inter-confessional dialogue in the social practices of charitable service is presented. The scientific ideas on effective methods and techniques of inter-confessional dialogue are studied, and its socially significant futures are presented. It is shown that among the obstacles to achieving inter-confessional dialogue on issues of social service of Christian confessions may be orthodox confessional paradigm and worldview, for example, endeavor the desire of its participants for a monopoly on truth, as well as the conviction of the exclusivity of their faith and its superiority over others. Therefore, inter-confessional dialogue can only be considered unfulfilled if it carries into the discourse of dogmatics. This goal was solved using methods of philosophical reflection, dialectical and discursive analysis, phenomenological and systematic approaches. The scientific novelty lies in the proposed concept of development of interconfessional dialogue in improving the social service of religious organizations, through the development of interaction. It is noted that social service can be a «field of cooperation» of communities of different confessions. Theoretical and practical conclusions of the obvious prospects for the development of interfaith dialogue are formulated. The article can be useful for training specialists of higher Education institutions studying in the Humanities.