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Bulgakov Society--An informal network and open Christian fellowship for the
encouragement of the study and appreciation of the life and work of Fr.
Sergius Bulgakov |
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"The greatest Orthodox theologian since Saint Gregory Palamas"
-- Constantin Andronikov (d. 1997), French translator and editor |
Fr. Sergei Nikolaevich Bulgakov
(June 16, 1871, Livny - July 12, 1944, Paris) |
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-- Excerpt from funeral homily
by Metropolitan Evlogy
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Encyclopedia entries on-line:
Other web pages dedicated to Sergius Bulgakov:
Bibliographies:
Other resources on-line (primary):
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Sophia, the Wisdom of God: An Outline of Sophiology (Library of Russian
Philosophy) - By Sergius Bulgakov
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The Holy Grail and the Eucharist - By Sergius Bulgakov, translated by
Boris Jakim
- The Virgin and the Saints in Orthodoxy - By Sergius Bulgakov, a
chapter in
Eastern Orthodox Theology (Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 1995) edited by
Daniel B. Clendenin
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Problems of Idealism: Essays in Russian Social Philosophy - Book edited by
Randall A. Poole. Contains essays by Bulgakov and others.
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A Bulgakov Anthology: From Marxism to Christian Orthodoxy - Book edited by
Nicholas Zernov and James Pain
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The Vatican Dogma - By Sergius Bulgakov, with Introduction by L. A. Zander
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Philosophy of Economy: The World as Household (Chapter 1) [PDF] - By Sergei Bulgakov
- Prayer for Unity - By
Sergius Bulgakov
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The Orthodox Church - By Sergey Bulgakov. These are excerpts as "edited" by
Bishop Alexander (Mileant) and others.
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Apocatastasis and Transfiguration - Book edited by
Robert Bird, University of
Chicago. The main part of the book comprises an essay excerpted from
Bulgakov's Bride of the Lamb, part of his sophiological trilogy, which
gives a good introduction into Bulgakov's theology. The essay is supplemented
by a memoir of Bulgakov by Sister Joanna Reitlinger and an introduction by the
translator, Boris Jakim. This and other relevant titles can also be purchased
directly from the author/publisher (Variable Press).
- "The Correspondence of Bulgakov and Florovsky: Chronicle of a Friendship."
Wiener Slavistischer Almanach (Munich) 38, Fall 1996, pp. 37-49 - By
Catherine Evtuhov, Georgetown University. See Professor Evtuhov's link for
other related edited materials.
- The Power of the Cross: A sermon by
Father Bulgakov
Links to secondary resources on-line:
- Review of Bulgakov's
The Bride of the Lamb - By Svitlana Kobets, University of Toronto
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Review of Bulgakov's Bride of the Lamb - By John Chryssavgis, Holy
Cross School of Theology, Brookline, Massachusetts. Review appeared in
Theology Today, October 2002.
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Review of Bulgakov's The Comforter - By Myroslav Tataryn, St.
Jerome's College, Waterloo, Ontario. Review appeared in Anglican
Theological Review, Fall 2005.
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Review of Rowan Williams's Sergii Bulgakov, Towards a Russian Political
Theology - By Antoine Arjakovsky, Catholic University of Ukraine, Lviv
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Review of Rowan Williams's Sergii Bulgakov, Towards a Russian Political
Theology - By Joseph S. O'Leary, Sophia University, Tokyo
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Bulgakov's
Ecumenical Thought [DOC] - By Anastassy (Brandon) Galaher, doctoral
student in theology at the University of Oxford specializing in Russian
thought, especially Bulgakov. This was previously published in Sobornost.
Illustrations and original formatting have not been retained.
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Sergii Bulgakov, the Fellowship of St Alban and St Sergius, Intercommunion and
Sofiology - Abstract to article by Bryn Geffert at Taylor & Francis Group
- Heresy on Mt. Athos:
Conflict over the Name of God Among Russian Monks and Hierarchs, 1912-1914
- By Tom E. Dykstra, University of Washington. Has sub-section on "Sergius
Bulgakov's Contribution." The Dykstra thesis can also be found at another
website
here.
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Wassen on Gavrilyuk's Universal Salvation in Bulgakov
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The Paris School of Theology: Unity or Multiplicity?
Paul Valliere
Other Papers and links of interest:
- The
Spirit of the Grand Inquisitor - By N. A. Berdyaev, "Regarding Ukaz of
Met. Sergei condemning the Theological Views of Fr. S. Bulgakov"
- The Comforter and
Divine-Humanity - paper by Nadia Delicata, Th.D. candidate, Regis College,
University of Toronto, appearing in the on-line journal, Theandros, Volume 5,
number 1, Fall 2007
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Sergei Bulgakov: Eastern Orthodoxy engaging the modern world [PDF] -
Article by Myroslaw Tataryn, University of Saskatchewan, in
Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses,
Volume 31, Numbers 3-4, 2002
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Modernity and its Critique in 20th Century Russian Orthodox Thought [PDF]
- Article by Kristina Stockl,
University of Innsbruck, in Studies in Eastern European Thought (2006)
58:243-269
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Bulgakov, The Trinity and Ecumenism [PDF] - Paper by Adam V[erslype],
prepared at Religious Studies Department, University of Dayton (no date given)
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Fr Sergius Bulgakov (1871-1944): A study in the Eastern Orthodox hermeneutical
perspective [PDF] - By A. I. Negrov,
University of Pretoria, Faculty of Theology, in Hervormde Teologiese
Studies, 58 (1) / Mar, pp 250-263. Negrov is also Academic Dean, St.
Petersburg Christian University (Russia).
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Groberg on
The Wisdom Visions of Merton via Solovev and Bulgakov
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Joost van Rossum on Palamism and Sophiology
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Sergei
Bulgakovs Sophic Economy
Other resources (secondary):
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The Cross and the Sickle: Sergei Bulgakov and the Fate of Russian Religious
Philosophy, 1890-1920 - Book by
Catherine Evtuhov, Georgetown University
- Eastern Orthodox Thought: Sergius Bulgakov, Paul Evdokimov, Mother
Maria Skobtsova - Chapter by
Michael Plekon, Baruch College, that appeared in
The Blackwell Companion to Political Theology (2003)
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The Trinitarian Panentheism of Sergej Bulgakov - Article by John
O'Donnel, S.J., in Gregorianum 76/1 (1995), pp. 31-45.
- Russian
Religious Thought: Recovering the roots of Russian religious philosophy -
Book edited by Judith Deutsch Kornblatt and Richard Gustafson. Contains essays
on Bulgakov and others.
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Book review of Russian Religious Thought by Kornblatt and Gustafson -
Review by Tom Dykstra, University of Washington. This review provides further
information about a book that attends particularly to the Sophiological
concerns of Bulgakov and others.
- I Love,
Therefore I Am: The Theological Legacy of Archimandrite Sophrony - Book by
Nicholas V. Sakharov. Has sections relating to Sergius Bulgakov.
- A History of Russian Philosophy: From the Tenth to the Twentieth
Centuries, edited by Valery A. Kuvakin, Ph.D. - Contains a chapter by Kuvakin
on Sergei Bulgakov focusing on: His Legal Marxism, From Marxism to Idealism,
From Religious Revolution to Monarchism, From Christian Philosophy to Dogmatic
Theology, His Methodology and the Theory of Knowledge, Antinomism as a
Principle of the Metaphysics of All-Unity, Word and Being, Sophiological
Ontology, and The Historiosophy of All-Unity
- A.I. Resnichenko. Category of Name
and Ontology Experience: Bulgakov, Florovsky, Losev. - in Voprosy
Filosofii, N 8 2004
- Sergei Bulgakov: His Life and His Reflections in It: A Case Study for
the Churching of the Russian Intelligentsia, an essay by A. M. Choufrine.
This essay appears in Natalia Pecherskaya, editor, The Emancipation of
Russian Christianity, translated by R. Coates. (Toronto Studies in
Theology, Number 33, ISBN 0-7734-8871-5) Edwin Mellen Press, 1995.
- Sergius N. Bulgakov: From Marxism to Sophiology - Article by
Winston F. Crum in St. Vladimirs Theological Quarterly 27, no. 1 (1983):
3-26.
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Essai sur le pre Serge Boulgakov (1871-1944): Philosophe et thologien
chrtien - Book by Antoine Arjakovsky, Catholic University of the Ukraine,
Lviv, published by Parole et Silence (Paris), May 2006, ISBN
2845734123, 214 pages.
- Sergius Bulgakov and His Teaching - Article by Rev. Stanley S.
Harakas in Greek Orthodox Theological Review 7, Nos. 1-2 (1961): 92-105.
- Samokishyn
on Bulgakov's Eschatology
- Arjakovsky on the
Sophiology of Father Sergius Bulgakov and Contemporary Western Theology
- The Tragedy of Russian Religious Philosophy: Sergei Bulgakov and the
Future of Orthodox Theology - Article by Robert Bird in Orthodox
Christianity and Contemporary Europe, Eds. Jonathan Sutton and Wil van den
Bercken. Leuven-Paris-Dudley, MA: Peeters, 2003. 211-28.
- The two Philosophies of the Divine Name: Alexei Losev and father Sergii
Bulgakov vis--vis Pavel Florenskij: Hermeneutical and semiological
meditations over the Byzantine hesyschast theology and Russian nominalism
- Article by Dennis Ioffe in Kritika i Semiotika, Novosibirsk State
University, Higher Education Support Program, Open Society Institute
Budapest, September 2007
Dissertations and Theses:
- Sophia, the
wisdom of God conceptions of the divine feminine in Russian culture,
1880--1917 (Vladimir Soloviev, Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Blok, Pavel Kuznetsov,
Sergei Bulgakov, Nikolai Roerich) - By David Matthew Borgmeyer, Ph.D.,
University of Southern California, 2004
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Bulgakovs Sophianic Vision.Thesis
by Robert F. Thompson, "From
Glory to Glory: The Sophianic Vision of Fr. Sergius Bulgakov in Context of
Tradition" Submitted to
Memphis Theological
Seminary 2010
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- Tradition
and modernity: Sergei Bulgakov's quest for a Christian civil society in late
Imperial Russia - By Scott Van Lingenfelter, Ph.D., University of Illinois
at Chicago, 2005.
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Father Pavel Florenskis Theological and Philosophical Thought - Abstract
of Ph.D. thesis by Fr. Nicolae Nicolescu. Contains some reference to Bulgakov.
- Where is Hope to be found? Sophia and the Battle for the World in the
theology of Sergei Bulgakov - Working title for dissertation-in-progress
(Ph.D.) by Kerry George,
Murdoch University (Australia)
- A Sophia of Substance by Kerry
George
- Sergii Bulgakov and the sophiological controversy: an historical
inquiry into the encounter of Russian orthodoxy and Western modernity -
Dissertation-in-progress (Th.D.) by Jonathan R. Seiling, School of Theology,
University of Toronto.
- Spirit of Freedom, Spirit of Love: The Dialectic of Freedom and
Necessity and the Analogy of Love in the Trinitarian Theologies of Sergii
Bulgakov, Karl Barth and Hans Urs von Balthasar - Dissertation-in-progress
(D.Phil.) by Brandon Gallaher, University of Oxford.
- Ecologies of
salvation: New roots for environmental ethics in three Christian traditions
- By Willis Jackson Jenkins, Ph.D., University of Virginia, 2006. The second
part of the dissertation offers critical reappraisals of three soteriological
traditions through readings of Thomas Aquinas, Karl Barth, and Sergei Bulgakov.
- Man as the revolutionary image of God. The philosophical anthropologies
of Sergii N. Bulgakov and Nikolai A. Berdiaev - Dissertation-in-progress
(in German), by
Regula Zwahlen, at Universitt Freiburg, Institut fr Ost- und
Ostmitteleuropa, Departement der
Philosophie.
- The Development of the Political and Religious Philosophy of Sergii
Bulgakov, 1895-1922 - Dissertation by Philip Walters, London School of
Economics, 1978.
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Ecologies of Grace: Environmental Ethics
and Christian Theology has a chapter about Bulgakov called "Thinking like a
Transfigured Mountain: Sergie Bulgakov's Wisdom Ecology."
Blogs (Web Logs) and Discussion Groups:
- Sergius Bulgakov
Discussion - Our associated discussion group at Yahoo!. Please join
and participate!
- The Unburnt Bush - The
blog of Gregorios Wassen, seminarian at Saint Vladimir Orthodox Theological
Seminary. Contains some excerpts of texts by and about Fr. Sergius Bulgakov.
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Milbank on Sophiology - By Joel Garver in his blog, Sacra Doctrina.
This relates to Professor John Milbank's recent (2005) reflections on
Sophiology, in Bulgakov and more generally. Milbank's presentation was given
at the Theology and Philosophy Cooperative meeting on November 18,
2005, in Philadelphia.
- Sophia - A
report by Peter J. Leithart at his
blog concerning the presentation by Professor John Milbank at the
Theology and Philosophy Cooperative
meeting on November 18, 2005, in Philadelphia. This was in conjunction with
the annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion. Professor Milbank's
presentation touches on an approach to understanding Sophia in Bulgakov's work
and on the meaning and function of Sophia more generally.
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Sergius Bulgakov on Church Unity - By Andrew Matthews on March 26, 2005,
at his Unpopular Opinions: Challenging the status quo in church and state
blog
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Fr. Sergius Bulgakov and Christology (Christ's Baptism) - Discussion
thread from February 23, 2005, at CopticHymns.net
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Thoughts on Fr. Sergius Bulgakov - Evlogite blog entry, from September 16,
2004
- Sophia in
the Patristic Tradition - Discussion forum at Monachos.net.
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Should Catholics Follow the Utopian Vision of Modern Democracies? Part III-3
The Problems of Utopia - Blog entry (June 2007) by Henry Karlson at the
on-line journal, Nova Vox. Contains reference to Bulgakov's Heroism and
Asceticism essay.
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Sergius Bulgakov on the Incarnation - March 5, 2008, blog entry by Joe
Rawls at his The Byzantine Anglo-Catholic blog.
Conferences and Lectures:
- Theologians in the Church: Fr. Sergius Bulgakov and Fr. Nicolas
Afanasiev - Scheduled presentation by Fr. Michael Plekon, Baruch College,
City University of New York, as Track 2 (Living Icons: Persons of Faith from
the Orthodox Church in the 20th Century), Session 3, in the
Eagle River Institute,
Eagle River, Alaska, August 3, 2006.
- The Eastern Orthodox Studies Group, which meets regularly during the
annual meetings of the American Academy of Religion (AAR), dedicated one of
its 2006 sessions to various aspects of S. Bulgakovs theology.
- The Dogmatics of Identity: Sergei N. Bulgakov's Early Theological
Writings - Presentation by T. Allan Smith, St. Michael's College, Toronto,
Canada, given at conference of the Association for the Study of Eastern
Christian History and Culture (ASEC) at Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio,
October 2005.
- Soloviev's Early Idealism and the Birth of Sophia - Presentation by
Jonathan Seiling, Emmanuel College, Toronto, Canada, given at conference of
the Association for the Study of Eastern Christian History and Culture (ASEC)
at Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, October 2005. Of relevance to the
sophiological tradition as later re-worked by Bulgakov.
- Sergei Bulgakov and Orthodox Civic Identity in Late Imperial Russia
- Presentation by Scott Lingenfelter, University of Illinois, Chicago,
Illinois, given at conference of the Association for the Study of Eastern
Christian History and Culture (ASEC) at Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio,
October 2005.
- Rublev's Trinity in the Iconology and Triadology of Bulgakov -
Presentation by Marina V. Vasina, Sankt-Petersburg, Russia, given at the
Ecumenical Conference at Bose, Italy, on September 16, 2005.
- Study Day on Holy Wisdom - As reported by Second Spring: A Journal
of Faith and Culture, this study day is to be held at Oxford Centre for
Mission Studies, Oxford, England, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, April
23, 2005. Invited speakers are Dr Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury, to
speak on Creation, Creativity and Creatureliness: The Wisdom of Finite
Existence and Prof. Celia Deane-Drummond, to speak on "Ecology, Wisdom and
Beauty in Bulgakov, Balthasar and Aquinas." The study day is to be chaired by
Bishop Kallistos of Diokleia. Contact for more information: warden@sttheosevia.org.uk
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Russian Theology in European Context - Conference on Bulgakov and
Contemporary Western Religious Philosophical Thought, held at
St. Andrew's Biblical
Theological College, Moscow, 9/29/04 - 10/3/04
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The Reality of the Sophianic Dimension - Presentation (in German) by Elke
Kirsten (Institut fr kumenische Studien, Universitt Fribourg/Schweiz) at
the St. Andrew's conference on Bulgakov, in Moscow (2004).
- Les
archetypes de la saintet dans la tradition orthodoxe - Presentation by
Antoine Arjakovsky, Lviv, Ukraine, 4/10/04 (in French). Contains numerous
references to Bulgakov.
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Personne, Sagesse, Hypostase, une vision renouvelee de la divino-humanite
- Presentation by Antoine Arjakovsky, Lviv, Ukraine, 2/9/04 (in French).
Contains numerous references to Bulgakov.
- Le
heritage de l'ecclesiologie sapientielle de Vladimir Soloviev -
Presentation by Antoine Arjakovsky, Lviv, Ukraine, 10/31/03 (in French).
Contains numerous references to Bulgakov.
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La
Figura e l'Opera di P. Sergej N. Bulgakov - Conference, Padova, 3/29/03
- Christ or Antichrist? The Political Economy of Fr. Sergius Bulgakov
- Presentation by Daniel Payne, Baylor University, to the Ethics, Society and
Cultural Analysis section of the
2003 Southwest
Regional meeting of the American Academy of Religion (AAR)
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The Christian Socialism of Fr. Sergii Bulgakov: Toward an Orthodox Political
Economy - Presentation by
Nikolas K. Gvosdev and Daniel P. Payne at the
Christianity and Economics:
Integrating Faith and Learning in Economic Scholarship conference held
November 7-9, 2002, at Baylor University.
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Sacramentality of Creation: An Assessment of Recent Studies in the Theology of
Creation in the Eastern-Oriental Tradition - Lecture by Kadavil Mathai
(Faculty of Theology, K.U.Leuven, Belgium) at Leuven Encounters in Systematic
Theology III, Theology and Conversation: Developing a Relational Theology,
November 6-9, 2001. "Our study will briefly introduce the sophiological
approach of Vladimir Soloviev, who tried to reconcile the pantheistic
worldview with the Christian doctrine of the incarnation, and of his followers
Paul Florensky, Sergius Bulgakov and Nicholas Berdyaev." At this link you will
need to scroll down to the lecture proposal by Kadavil Mathai.
- Bulgakov's Sophiology: A Post-Modern Hermeneutic - Presentation by
Myroslaw Tataryn at the American Academy of Religion National Conference,
Nashville, Tennessee, 2000