Ecological crisis as a reflection of the spiritual crisis from the position of the Russian Orthodox Church
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The article is devoted to the consideration of the attitude of the Russian Orthodox Church to environmental problems in the modern world. Orthodoxy looks at a person and the world around him as a creation of God, urging him to respect and love nature - a gift of God. Orthodoxy sees the cause of environmental disasters in the lapse from virtueof a person who, imagining himself the ruler of the world, brought the natural world around him to a state of crisis. A person, having incorrectly built a hierarchy of values, puttingmaterial values in the foreground, led nature to death. The revival of nature is a direct responsibility of a person. But, from the position of Orthodoxy, indicating a close relationship between the decline of morality and the crisis state of the environment, a natural revival is possible only in the case of a spiritual revival.

Markova N.M., (2020), ECOLOGICAL CRISIS AS A REFLECTION OF THE SPIRITUAL CRISIS FROM THE POSITION OF THE RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH. Sociopolitical Sciences, 1 => 79-83.

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environmental crisis, spiritual crisis, Russian Orthodox Church, the lapse from virtue.