THE MODELS OF STATE AND CHURCH INTERACTION: PROBLEMS OF LEGAL ADJUSTMENT

Abstract

The article deals with the law regulation of the relationship between state power and Church. There are two main directions of their development: the Eastern Christian and Western Christian. Such models as conciliaristic, etatistic and totalitarian-atheistic are presented in the first direction. A model of theocratic universalism and, as a controversy to it, anticlerical and secular models are developed in the second direction. The analysis of corrent legislative framework aimed to ensure the freedom of religion in Ukraine discovers some causes of it’s slippage. The author argues that model that would combine traditional Orthodox conciliarity in content, and Western secularism in form will be the most effective to provide interaction between state power and religion in Ukraine.