Abstract: The subject of this research is the organization of social ministry in the eparchies of the Russian Orthodox Church. The article analyzes the concept of social mission as a particular type of church ministry formed at the intersection of missionary activities and social work. The unity of target of missionary activities and social work allows determining this type of ministry. The institutionalization of the target of social mission is conducted through application of various criteria. Special attention is given to the role of the diverse forms and methods of social mission as the additional criteria for segmenting the target of social mission. The research is carried out via the methods of hermeneutics as the foundation of missiological methodology. Within the framework of this research, the author analyzes the regulatory documents of the Russian Orthodox Church. The scientific novelty lies in segmentation of the destination field of social mission. For the first time, the categories of social work recipients are presented as the target of social mission. This article reveals the prospects for interdisciplinary research at the intersection of missiology and social diaconia. Social ministry of the Church is viewed in the context of missiological goal setting.

Abstract: Christianity proceeds from the ontologically defined unity of the human race as the addressee of the mission, but humanity as the addressee of the mission is not identical with the people of God in the person of the Church. On the contrary, the Church and humanity, throughout its history and to its end, are tragically disestablished. The addressee of the mission is not identical with the Church and is opposed to it as the outside world. Initially, the mission of the apostles is addressed to the external addressee, so the external mission is the original form of Christian missionary service. The article discusses the concept of the mission addressee through the ontological definition, as well as through its attitude toward the boundaries of the Church. The situation from the apostolic age to the present day shows the conventionality of the division of the mission into an external and internal one. Initially, the Church consists of people united by faith based on the living experience of communication and presence. In this regard, the article shows that any addressee of the testimony of this faith is an external addressee in relation to the apostolic mission. 

Abstract: The systematization of theological knowledge is a results of the reception of creedal content of Revelation in historical experience of the Church as a unique institution with a right for legitimate indoctrination, as well as authentic interpretation. The only source of this right is the Revelation itself. Correspondence of the results of such procedures with theological axiomatic is determined primarily by its succession and doctrinal intactness. The article examines the need in formation of the news mission strategies in modern world, which is a definitive motive for interpretation and systematization of the missionary aspects of Revelation. Namely the Revelation defines the method if reception, interpretation and systematization of the genuine content. At the present stage, the actualization of missionary aspects of the Revelation is preceded by a short, but extremely important process of the emergence and development of Orthodox missiology. This process carries an incomplete character, and its relevant results are interval, and this controversial. Therefore, the modern Orthodox missiology is in the stage of intense problematization of its research field and method. The paramount obstacle in development of this process is the ambiguous understanding of the role and theoretical-methodological status of the Orthodox missiology within the system of theological knowledge.