The article deals with Orthodox genre specifics, establishes its position within the religious discourse, and identifies the characteristics of the integrative correlations with other general cultural and scientific discursive paradigms. The authors have identified the Orthodox parables genre constructive features and described the common and differential characteristics in comparison with literary parables. The characteristics of the parables as a secondary speech genre within religious discourse and defined parable’s significance in Russian cultural linguistics have also been detailed. The combination of discursive, definitional, lexical and semantic, linguo-pragmatic, and system-oriented analysis methods enables to study the Orthodox parables discursive area, basing on contemporary scientific and methodological principles of integrative approach and interdisciplinarity. The article primarily focuses on the analysis of the Orthodox elders’ parables as a distinct genre of Orthodox parables, along with their cultural linguistic and axiological parables’ components. The authors have also noted the necessity to consider linguistic and extralinguistic factors in the analysis of the studied variety of religious discourse. The syncretic nature of the research is highly significant within the framework of establishing a scientific paradigm in contemporary humanities that is oriented towards the search of universal applicable methods of analysis complex systems and objects, including linguistic ones. As a result, the authors draw conclusions regarding the semantic, ethno-cultural, and functional representational specifics of the profound meanings in the Orthodox parables texts, as well as the nature of their allegorical qualities, and identify the value dominants of parables by Orthodox elders’ texts, significant for the system of national cultural codes.