Humanities & Social Sciences 12 (2016 9) 2896-2903 ~ ~ ~ УДК 27-22 Transfiguration of Man and Struggle with Passions in Due Holy Father Heritage (Maximus Confessors’ Doctrine) Sergei N. Belkov* Russian Christian Humanitarian Academy 15 nab. <...> River Fontanka, St. Petersburg, 191023, Russia Received 16.08.2016, received in revised form 20.09.2016, accepted 21.10.2016 Maximus Confessor, concerning mystical divinity, symbolically identifies the concept “passion” with the concept “deification”. <...> Here sense of passion as suffering and endurance and passion as natural internal-energy characteristic of the human nature extremely approach. <...> In this case the endurance appears in especially positive sense: as “patience” of influence of the fertile Divine gifts streaming to the person. <...> On the other hand, natural internal-energy of a human nature also proves here in ideal sense – a passionate tendency to God, to connection with Him. <...> Being compelled, for obvious reasons, somehow to limit a subject field of our research and addressing to Holy Father Heritage, we intentionally focus our attention on the doctrine of Maximus Confessor. <...> Following Holy Fathers’ tradition, Maximus Confessor defines man as a complex, dialectic and contradictory unity of soul and body. <...> All rights reserved * Corresponding author E-mail address: belkov@sapernoe.ru – 2896 – simply a static imposition of two heterogeneous elements that are a mortal body and an immortal soul on each other, but a reflection of a dynamic function of man which is shown concerning God and the mortal plain’1 . <...> Every person belongs to each of these worlds with his/ her soul and body, and therefore both of these worlds, being different outside of a person, find a real unity in humanity. <...> But Maximus Confessor attaches a fundamentally different meaning Sergei N. Belkov. <...> Transfiguration of Man and Struggle with Passions in Due Holy Father Heritage to the antique idea of unity of microcosm and macrocosm: man in his anthropology acts as the center of all divine creation, he settles down in its center, and the task of association and solution of all contrasts of the created world allotted to him by the disposition of Providence. <...> Man is assigned to implement this great goal and, therefore, in its creation he has a special, exclusive status. <...> In particular, this is expressed in a special intimacy of a human being to God compared with other beings <...>