THE PLACE OF THEOLOGY IN THE RUSSIAN EDUCATION SYSTEM
The article is devoted to the study of a place of the theology as a discipline in the modern scientific world. The author gives the characteristic of its place in the Russian system of the higher spiritual and secular education. The special attention is paid to the Russian system of the secular postgraduate education that implies the inclusion of the theology into the nomenclature of professions of scientists. Because 47 countries signed the Bologna declaration the author notes the careful assumption of the possible gradual merge of the external characteristics of systems of the theological education in a certain same option of teaching, certification and scientific development of all countries of Europe. The author also mentioned the possibility of changing the status of theology as a discipline in the Russian education system.