Religioznost" est" zhivaya pervoosnova istinnoy kul"tury. I.A. Il"in utverzhdal nevozmozhnost" kul"tury bez religioznoy very. On polagaet, chto religioznaya vera, religioznyy obryad est" zakon i mera, kotorye sderzhivayut stikhiyu dushi, prirody, istorii, i v etom sderzhivanii stikhiya obretaet formu i krasotu. Takim obrazom, terminom «kul"tura» v uchenii I.A. Il"ina oznachaetsya smysloobrazuyushchee nachalo zhiznedeyatel"nosti cheloveka, gde istochnikom smysla i tseli zhizni yavlyaetsya Bog, a ego proyavleniem – dukhovnost", pronizyvayushchaya vsyu kul"turu, vystupayushchaya vseob"emlyushchey universal"noy kharakteristikoy kul"tury. V kontseptsii Ivana Aleksandrovicha Il"ina pravoslavnaya kul"tura, kak prisushchaya isklyuchitel"no chelovecheskomu sushchestvu forma ego tvorcheskoy realizatsii posredstvom serdtsa, sovesti i razuma, svoey irratsional"noy siloy dukha evangel"skoy lyubvi, smireniya i gotovnost"yu k stradaniyam protivostoit pobochnomu produktu sozidatel"noy energii cheloveka – tekhnokratii, gde tsarit gubitel"nyy dlya zhizni kul"t utilitarnogo znaniya, potrebitel"skogo progressa i ushcherbnaya virtual"naya zhizn".