TRINITY AND SOCIAL WHOLENESS IN THE worldview OF D. S. MEREZHKOVSKY

Abstract

The article is dedicated to the views of the Russian religious thinker D. S. Merezhkovsky. It is stated that D. S. Merezhkovsky considers the Trinity as the cornerstone of the sacred history: the Testament of the Father - the Testament of the Son - the Testament of the Spirit. The triad of personality-sex-society is revealed in detail. The emphasis is on the fact that the Mystery of the Three is the mystery of the Plenitude, the true Society, the way to the Kingdom of God. The specifics of Merezhkovsky’s views was that at the beginning of the 20th century he saw that humanity was moving along the path of universality and it was important what kind of universality would be accepted by humanity: the Testament of the Spirit or some kind of an atheistic international. Using historical, analytical, dialectical and systemic methods of research, the authors come to the conclusion that the relationship between the ideas of social integrity and Trinity is the original theme of D. S. Merezhkovsky’s worldview. The relevance of the topic is that at the present time, in the era of social transformations and the domination of postmodernism, the idea of social integrity again becomes very important, because without this idea any historical project is impossible.