The monograph is devoted to the study of the key area of ​ ​ ideological searches by N.A. Berdyaev. The author's focus is on the specifics of the religious philosophy of the great Russian thinker. The work examines the foundations of the philosophizing of Nikolai Alexandrovich, traces the mutual influence of the logic of ideological search and the life world, and reveals the core of his philosophy. The author proves that Berdyaev's religious philosophy was gnostic.