Ecological crisis as a reflection of the spiritual crisis from the position of the Russian Orthodox Church

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.

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