On January 23, 2024, the entirety of Ukrainian Orthodoxy will celebrate a joyful and solemn anniversary – the 95th anniversary of the birth of His Holiness Patriarch of Kyiv and All Russia-Ukraine Filaret (Denysenko). For this important event, Anatoly Bohdanenko, candidate of sciences in public administration and Denis Martyshyn, doctor of sciences in public administration, doctor of theology, associate professor prepared the book “Ukrainian Orthodoxy in the Philosophy of Public Administration”, which is dedicated to the Hero of Ukraine, an outstanding modern church figure, Ukrainian statesman and religious thinker – His Holiness Patriarch Filaret.
The reviewer of the book was Yevhen Romanenko, doctor of sciences in public administration, professor, Honored Lawyer of Ukraine, colonel of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, president of the public scientific organization “All-Ukrainian Assembly of Doctors of Sciences in Public Administration”, member of the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine.
The book analyzes the theological, historical, statesmanship, national dimensions of the Patriarch’s church service, his state-building ideas, as well as the phenomenon of Ukrainian Orthodoxy in the world family of Christian Churches. Considerable attention was paid to the multifaceted activity of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kyiv Patriarchate in spreading the national idea of Ukraine in the educational space of the Ukrainian state.
The book was written during the last years of the heroic struggle of the Ukrainian people against Russian aggression, but it is primarily dedicated to the heroes of the spirit, the soldiers of the invisible struggle for values, spiritual ideas, free thinking and freedom of thought – educators, enlighteners, scientists, theologians and church ministers, who bring to the spiritual – the intellectual space of higher values of intellect, spirituality, freedom, free thinking and patriotism.
