DRAMA OF UKRAINIAN ORTHODOX IDENTITY: BETWEEN ALTERNATIVES AND PARODY

Abstract

The Christian Church identity always carries an element of drama in itself. And such an element arises in the course of the encounter between the transcendental Word and that group of Noah’s descendants who wearied of earthly wandering and emerged from the ruined tower of a dust-covered Babylon acquire some common lineaments of their way of familiarization with God and formed, ultimately, into a national culture. Likewise, those on the Ukrainian way through its recent history, who still goes round the phantom towers of the contemporary Babylon, that at times shines with Kremlin-like stars on top and sometimes remarkably remind the vision of a depleted gas well.