The book offered to readers is a serious scientific polemic work devoted to the problem of legal understanding .. From general theoretical positions, the author develops a synthetic theory of law based on a spiritual and cultural approach. The monograph deals with the problems of the concept and essence of law, the actualization of religious and moral foundations of law, the peculiarities of Russian legal culture in the flow of world and domestic history. The book is addressed both to specialists in the field of jurisprudence, students and teachers of law faculties, and to wide readership interested in the history of Russian spiritual culture .. The book offered to readers is a serious scientific polemic work devoted to the problem of legal understanding .. From general theoretical positions, the author develops a synthetic theory of law based on a spiritual and cultural approach. The monograph deals with the problems of the concept and essence of law, the actualization of religious and moral foundations of law, the peculiarities of Russian legal culture in the flow of world and domestic history. The book is addressed both to specialists in the field of jurisprudence, students and teachers of law faculties, and to wide readership interested in the history of Russian spiritual culture ..