Existential and Cognitive Dimensions of Personal Denomination-Oriented Research and Educational Practices: A Few Case Studies from the Still-Relevant Story of an Academic Project

Abstract

Personal anniversaries - which, by the way, occur only because some extraordinary individuals live among us - always present a serious opportunity to recall past work, contemplate our present existence, and reflect on the future. After all, the extraordinary people (and now we are talking about the prominent Ukrainian theologian, church historian, and religious educator, Sergii Sannikov, on whom the Lord has bestowed his first seventy-year anniversary) are not merely interesting "in and of themselves." In fact, they are interesting to us and important because they become mediators and exponents of things that are general, common, and typical, such as typical traits of character, typical existential experiences, typical cognitive intentions, or typical efforts of activity.