Will appear in Russia, candidates and doctors of theology

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The Ministry of justice of the Russian Federation signed the order on approval of the academic degrees in theology, said Minister of education and science Olga Vasilyeva on the first all-Russian scientific conference “Theology in the educational space.” “14 June 2017 the justice Ministry finally signed an order stating that theology is not theology with a degree in history, philosophy, Philology, philosophy – and theology, the candidate and the doctor has the right to be”, – quotes the Minister Interfax. “Today is a truly historic day,” she said.

According to Vasilyeva, the Ministry of education will increase the number of budget places in this area. “This year we allocated for the 279 undergraduate places at the masters – 180, 16 in graduate school. In 2018-2019, already 632. This process will develop further,” – said the Minister.

The Agency notes that the greeting to participants of the conference on theology gave the head of the Russian presidential administration Anton Vaino, stressing that he considers the recognition of theology as a comprehensive and scientific disciplines “an important and significant result of years of constructive interaction between government, religious organizations, educational and expert communities, a strong incentive for the development of the Humanities”.

Leading the conference, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, in turn, gave Vaino gratitude “for the efforts that have been undertaken by the presidential administration and they (Vaino) personally to ensure that we approached today with these results.” According to the priest, the Russian Orthodox Church has already scheduled the publication “sixty textbooks in all areas of Church science.”

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